who are in the hospital and tragically more people are dying of covid-19. we are currently averaging over 500 covid-19 deaths per day, and these remain largely preventable. if you are still unvaccinated, please get vaccinated. the single best action you can take to protect yourself and others is to simply get vaccinated in the first place. and now i will turn things over to dr. fauci. thank you very much, dr. walensky. what i d like to do over the next couple of minutes is provide you with the immunological basis that would support a third booster mrna immunization. i will make four points and show you representative data from each of these. first, antibody levels decline over time. second, higher levels of antibody are associated with higher levels of efficacy of the