transplants in general. it makes sense now that you say that. you're a television star, a worldwide media star, it goes beyond television. and you were on the late show with stephen colbert last night. i want to play a little bit of that. >> when you were here in june, well, felt like things were going in the right direction. >> yeah. >> okay. and now i don't know what direction we're going in. i'm a little turned around because i knew that delta would come in and there would be a -- what is going on? >> i often thought about the country as my own patient. i think that's how i think about things. i think if i was talking to the family of the patient, i would say the patient is still in the intensive care unit, but we're getting ready to maybe move the patient out of the icu on to the general care floor. >> yeah, i mean, that's sort of been my -- i guess just as a doc how i thought about things. and i heard the surgeon general earlier say cautiously optimistic. you look for all sorts of signals here. i look to, you know, countries around the world, which i guess are other patients who are ahead