let's get to the ceo of steri cycle, cindy miller.ally prescient here. tell us what you're planning for and what you've enseen so far. >> sure. i think let's frame a few things. we're, obviously, the largest regulated medical waste company here in the u.s. we do business globally as well. but in 2020 we handled about 1.5 million pounds of medical waste. to that's a tremendous amount of waste, and 20 being a pandemic year. what we've seen since that time, sometimes the weight may have been down a little bit during 2020 simply because elective surgeries got deferred, you know, it really was a scheft in health care -- a lift in health care to to handling the pandemic. what we have seen since that time, q1 of this year, q2, we're seeing medical waste increase which means people are going back, getting elective surgeries, doing those types of things. and in terms of vaccinations, i think everybody should know that here at ster icycle, divert the blasterrics calm. at stericycle, we have a great pride in protecting what matters which is the