the public health issues in our community for at least 30 days. we re grateful for that. tell me about your hospitalizations. there s been this debate about are the covid hospitalization numbers about people in the hospital for covid, or is it people a combined about half of them are there for covid, half of them test positive for covid because they re in for something else? is that a distinction that matters in the current situation you re facing? it matters, but not in some of the ways that people might think. about 60% of our patients now are actually here with covid instead of for covid. in other words, they don t have the classic covid respiratory symptoms. however, some people in the category are here because of complications from a recent covid infection. they re dehydrated. they have kidney failure because of a recent infection. it s a murky category that also includes traumas and things