brian whitlock, great to have you.ort of alarmed to hear what's going on in your state right now. can you just give us a sense of what you're hearing from different hospital officials? >> thanks, william. appreciate the opportunity. our hospitals across the state have been stressed for a couple of weeks. what we saw starting at the beginning of august was a rapid increase in the number of positive cases which translated into hospitalizations, which translated into i.c.u. visits and also an increase in the amount of covid deaths. so that's been concerning since the beginning of august, and we have been doing all that we can to prepare to move into contingency modes, to move hospital space into nontraditional spaces like classrooms, hallways and other areas where we can at least try to meet the demand that's coming there uh the doors, but we've reached the point where we are almost on overload and have an inability to transfer patients to other areas of the state or even the region because of the lack of capacity around