summer, the fourth of july, president biden declared we're closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus. now we're at labor day. as nick laid out for us, we're averaging 1,500 covid deaths every day. icus nearing capacity or already there. what happened over the summer? >> what happened is a delta variant. actually two things happened. this pandemic is driven by behavior and the virus. and both behavior got looser, more people felt they were in the clear. those people who never were taking precautions didn't have precautions. and those people who were relaxed. and there's a much worse virus out there, much more transmissible. we have underestimated covid from the very beginning. the last administration underestimated it. and i'm sad to say this administration has underestimated it, too. we were all hopeful when we saw