narrative that was never true to begin with, that this only affects older americans or exclusively affects older americans. and we saw unprecedented numbers of kids going into children s hospitals, even pediatric intensive care units. the numbers are about 8,300 young kids in the hospital, and about a third of them in the intensive care unit. and the effects of long covid, which is occurring in about one in seven kids that have symptoms lasting 15 months. so the bottom line is with this delta variant, it s a serious issue for young kids. this is the need for the vaccines. but there s a lot of education to do because i think a lot of parents are not aware of it or they re being aggressively pursued by an antivaccine lobby that s telling them otherwise. so doctor, what are we going to see next? we heard what carter said about wanting to take off his mask. what level of vaccination do we