variant proving stubborn. any threat that that spreads here? unfortunately, yes. i m not a doom and gloom person. i would say unfortunately, yes. you tonight have to be nostradamas to predict the future. look across the european union, japan, other countries and you can see what the future holds for the united states as well. i don t think it s going to be broadly across the country. there will be different areas that will be affected differently. for example, my home state of maryland, we have a very high vaccination rate. i don t believe we re going to have a huge problem with either the epsilon variant or the delta