like i said, mark cline, at&t executive, he had been on c-span before. i would ask that you bring him back andk him his thoughts on what's going on as well as mr. smokan or julian assange, as you see there has been a lot of things framed around trying to frame those people who were really whistle-blowers on this whole cabal. i appreciate c san francisco and all the work that you are doing. all the callers that are critical of you guys it's because they don't understand the deluge of information you have to deal with every day. i am blessed to have you in my life. thank you c-span. >> anthony, office appreciate topic suggestion for this program, happy to take your suggestions. amy, it little you respond to the issues the caller brings up. >> sure. we can tie the privacy concern into this because my concern about social media and solving this problem correctly is the fact that social media both is a disseminator of crucial information -- and it's one that is widely used a. lot of surveys say most people get their news from social media. but second thing, a

mark cline, he is professor of pediatrics at tulane university school of medicine. dr.ldren. are you seeing cases of children getting the delta variant, and at what level would you consider the danger of that growing? >> we are seeing a lot of children infected with the delta variant. we're being inundated by covid as of monday we had just four children hospitalized here in new orleans with the delta variant of covid. by the time i left the hospital yesterday, there were 16. and this morning we have 19 inpatients. four in the intensive care unit. this variant is infecting children, it's making them terribly ill. and in some cases unfortunately it's killing them. >> my god. so what do you need? what does the state of louisiana need to do, in terms of outreach? what do you need to be able to get through this and what do you need people to understand? >> well, i think we need people to understand that what we're dealing with now is an entirely different animal than what we dealt with a year ago, this variant is easily transmitted person-to-person, it takes only casual cont