michael wasserman. ai committee for the california association of long-term-care of medicine. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. this is such an important topic. >> nationwide, we look at the number of new cases going up. it was up 170 percent in the last two weeks here inred we started with a smaller number so the percentage increase would be huge. the governor warned us today in making the announcement that he says that we would see a significant rise in hospitalizations if we do not change the trajectory. explained that. >> so, this has been frustrating, because the experts knew this was coming and saw this is coming with the delta variant. here's the bottom line, even if you are vaccinated, you can get the virus. and transmit it to others. so, you might not get sick. you may not end up in the hospital. but you can still transmit the virus, so, clearly, we know that unvaccinated people can transmit the virus and can end up in the icu on ventilators, and can die from this. and we still have a lot of people who are not vaccinated yet. what has been misun