but south africa doesn t look like the united states. it only has 6% of the population over 65 and 3/4 who had been infected and it has less than a third vaccinated. so we re trying to project against the data that we have, the solid data is on how many cases there would be. where we re hopeful is based on laboratory data. it s based on t cell studies, so we re hopeful that it will be less lethal, less veirulent, we know it will be more transmissible. those are the two things we have to juggle through the holiday season. you have been writing about this, fighting covid in the wall street journal. americans need to recognize we cannot succeed locally if we fail globally. talk to me about that. what should the u.s. be doing that we aren t doing right now? well, i mean, if you just look at the fact that we ve got now 30, 40% of the people who