hospitalizations, and death. they're still effective at preventing all of those. in terms of breakthrough infections as you mentioned, there still is a very, very small risk that someone fully vaccinate cleveland get infected, and then we have some recent data they can possibly transmit the infection to others. still, very, very rear. the issue is not with the vaccines but the variant. we have widespread uncontrolled transmission of the virus not just in the u.s. but globally and that's causing variants to evolve. the delta variant is a thousand times more infectious, and one person can infect about five people compared to the wild type which only infected two people. . all that to say, there's so much variant around that we really should consider reinstating masks especially where caseloads are high. i do think that in areas where the surges are happening, where hospitals are at capacity, those areas should consider other