have gotten their first dose.
51 million who have gotten their
second dose.
and we have -- we can kind of
almost see the end.
we're vaccinating so very fast,
our data from the cdc today
suggests, you know, that
vaccinated people do not carry
the virus, don't get sick, and
that it's not just in the
clinical trials but it's also in
real world data.
and yet on the other side, i'm
watching the cases tick up.
i'm watching us have increased
numbers of hypertransmissible
variants.
i'm watching our travel numbers
tick up, and the sense is, i
have seen what it looks like to
anticipate the oncoming surge.
and what i really would hate to
have happen is to have another
oncoming surge just as we're
reaching towards getting so many
more people vaccinated.
you know, we're still losing
people at 1,000 deaths a day.
and so i just can't face another
surge when there's so much