expected to be the dominant variant. for now, the delta variant is driving the latest surge. both cases and hospitalizations are at levels not seen since september at the end of the summer spike. dr. anthony fauci describes a nation at war. >> we will win this war with this virus. we know what public health mitigations work. we just have to hang in there. we can't give up. >> vice president kamala harris is not helping the messaging and may be adding to public jitters saying the white house didn't see either variant coming. she told the los angeles times, quote, we didn't see delta coming. i think most scientists did not upon whose advice and direction we have relied, didn't see delta coming. we didn't see omicron coming. that's the nature of what this awful virus has been, which as it turns out has mutations and