everyone's decision to try to get through this thing. and if you -- if you're not going to get vaccinated, then stay home. stay six feet away from people. wear a mask. wash your hands. um, the vaccination is -- is a very personal decision. but again, it's now become a community decision, if you decide not to get it. >> yeah. on the subject of children, nearly a dozen children were being treated for coronavirus at the hospital over the weekend. several of them, in the icu. do we need to be worried more about that? about what delta can do to kids, doctor? >> yeah. i mean, any illness can -- can get someone sick. and covid is -- is definitely the same. you know, whether it's rsv, which is really running -- running through all of our children's hospitals. or flu or covid. children can get sick. they don't have all the mechanisms that we have, as adults, to fight things. and they're very brittle. the fact that we're having more hospitalizations is concerning. the number of -- um -- the number of covid infections in school-aged children is rising. and, you know, at least in