many american cities. new york, 40 hospitals in new york just canceled elective procedures. the d.c. hospital association where i work has asked the d.c. government for permission for hospitals to enact crisis standards of care. and that's coming to every city in the united states. it's going come in a wave from north to south in this country. and it's going to last hopefully not much more than a few weeks, but it's going to be a tough january into the first part of february, and then hopefully it will clear quickly. but the country should understand that the virus is not going to go away. the pandemic is going to go away. and going forward, we're going to have to start to think about having low level of covid, the same way we have low levels of influenza -- well, we have high levels of influenza every year, but we're going to have to face, you know, this notion that this