I'm grateful for an opportunity to speak in this special debate. COVID-19 is wrecking the world, infecting and killing people. As I speak now, in the last 24 hours, more than 600,000 new infections, more than 9,000 new deaths—just in the last 24 hours. A lot of countries in the last few months have made progress, using a combination of public health and the vaccines, and then they dropped the ball. They became so complacent, and now, because of Delta, their health system is struggling and they are a mess. Their economies are also struggling—the economy they always wanted to protect.