and scientist dr. goldberg. doctor, your thoughts two years in. we re seeing good news, hospitalizations starting to decrease in some parts of the northeast. and the rest of the country is seeing decreased cases in the south and midwest with the west trailing behind a little bit. the hospitalizations, though, are still very high, and one of the differences in this case n this particular surge, it s not just the numbers. it s also that this affected health care workers in terms of people who had to call out sick because so many of us got infected at the same time, and that affected the hospital s ability to handle patients coming in potentially with the surge. the other part is that in general the hospital beds and icu beds t staff beds, the number working to make those hospital bed resources, those went down over the last few months. those have gone down by 4%. so our resilience has gone down, which has made this month