since it's a big country, and there's different regions, with different levels of vaccinations, different levels of what we call percentage of already affected individuals, that i believe you're going to see exactly what we've seen in south africa. that you're going to see a big gap, where this virus, even though it's highly infectious, for the most part, will not be as severe. but, when quantitatively, you get so many people infected, even if the relative proportion of people who are hospitalized is less than with delta, when you have such a volume of people infected, you're going to get a lot of serious disease, which is the reason why we now have something like 145,000 hospitalizations, 1600 deaths, and over a korte -- three quarters of 1 million cases, in one day. we can't take this lightly. >> doctor anthony fauci, thank you so much for making time tonight. >> thank you for having me.