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Gauging the response, what is working and what has done well. We made toefforts implement travel restrictions and limit travel from china clearly bought us some time. It slowed the rate of new cases coming into the country, i think the question becomes what we do with that time and we did some things well and some things not so well. I think we prepared the nation, we got the Health Care System prepared. We will educate providers. Learn more about the virus and how it spread and how you can combat it. One thing we didnt do that we should have was had in place broader screening. We should event omitted screening weeks ago and really a month ago or even more. To try detect small outbreaks early. We had problems rolling out a diagnostic test, we took a very linear approach in my view and depended upon one test promulgated by the centers for disease prevention rather than not it also working with academic labs together diagnostics. Then we had to scramble and so we are now just getting in
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