about 25 million seniors who have not been boosted. they are succumbing to the hospital event rate of about 7000 people a day from that group. eric: was the implication for those who are not vaccinated? we know that vaccines work at least keep you out of the hospital perhaps serious illness and death despite covid. what is your message to those who are unvaccinated considering the potential threat from omicron. there s an expectation that vaccines were going to eliminate this or eradicated for the goal was always to reduce hospitalizations and vaccines are really good job of downgrading the virus from a serious illness threat to a minor breakthrough infection or asymptomatic case. that is okay people tested positive for the breakthrough infection they re not getting sick not going to hospital that is okay there unvaccinated adults to come to the hospital and they have serious regrets that they did not get vaccinated parts of her adults have no vaccinated immunity in a natural immunit