megan rapinoe to try and turn that around. it shouldn't be too much. a lot of people consider sweden beating the u.s. as a shock, michael. don't subscribe to that. sweden, former world champions. i do expect the americans, though, to win comfortably today against new zealand when they kick off in just around four hours or so from right now. >> and we're going to leave it there, but we are going to see you in the hours ahead. patrick snell, thanks very much. exciting day. you've got me all excited. now i'm going to have to watch it after the show. >> you are. you're not sleeping tonight. >> no sleeping tonight. good to see you, patrick. patrick snell there. >>> now switching to coronavirus, and covid cases ticking up in the u.s. but the daily pace of americans reaching full vaccination keeps on falling. now, according to cdc data, it is now the lowest it has been since late january when the u.s. had only been vaccinating about six weeks or so. driven, of course, by the delta variant, new infections are soaring, especially, of course, among the unvaccinated. they make up the majority, the vast majority of both hospitalizat