d.c. next week as well. i'm a little nervous as a parent of school age children, i'll tell you that. you mentioned hospitalizations. what's the i.c.u. capacity situation for you guys? >> we have plenty of capacity at this current point. but again, we're seeing these alarming numbers. the startling increase in hospitalizations. we have declared the state of emergency because while we've taken some significant actions, as i mentioned with our school masking, our school vaccination requirements for educators, we require masks in all of our county buildings, our courthouses, our libraries. this state of emergency equips me to take additional public health measures as necessary. expedite contracts and other measures to make sure we can do whatever it takes to keep our people safe. but currently, you know, our ventilator and our capacity is good. i talk regularly with all of our hospital leaders. but they share concerns about where things are heading and they want to work in partnership to make sure we avoid our hospitals becoming overwhelmed and not having access to those ventilators if they become