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HOTEZ: “Well, what goes through my mind Vlad is that we’re having this incredible surge right now of Covid-19, although it's unevenly distributed in the United States right now, the south -- the south is on fire in terms of this raging epidemic, in terms of new cases, especially in young people. And now we've got 100,000 Americans in hospitals right now as -- as we’re speaking and the deaths are climbing to over 1,500 deaths a day, almost all of them among the unvaccinated. And so it troubles me that we somehow decided this is over and the Delta variant now is surging across America."