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Show Transcript Thank you. Thank you. Listen, thank everyone for joining us. As you re aware, the governor announced yesterday the vaccine eligibility is open for every use recipient age 16 years of age and older. We re excited to be able to open up this eligibility because we know there s a lot of demand out there. We ve had phenomenal success and getting vaccine out in different parts of our population. Obviously, we ve cleared it out initially for mostly high risk votes. And Dr buyers will talk about what a good job we re making. What progress we re seeing in our older individuals are 75 plus or 65 plus. And we know these are the age groups where the majority of the severe illness and the deaths occurred. So certainly it s the right time to do it. We need to get as many vaccines adminis