system. elizabeth? john, you know, we ve focused so much during the pandemic on the coronavirus killing people or putting people in the hospital, and, of course, that s the right focus, but i think we didn t think enough about what happens when you get a variant that is incredibly transmissible and maybe it doesn t kill people or put people in the hospital in huge numbers but so many people calling out sick. these headlines say it all. for example, a hospital in kansas staying nearly 900 staffers out sick. hospital workforces are being depleted, exhausted, hospitals having to scramble in order to take care of their patient and these numbers, john, they say it all. take a look at the cases in this country going up, up, up, up since the end of december and, you know, health care workers, they are out in the community just like the rest of us. now take a look at this map. john, you and i have talked about this many times over the past two years. i don t think we ve ever seen it