getting treated for covid withd they re not as sick as they were in the past. so you can t really compare those numbers apples to apples. you have to take into account that there are a lot of incidental infections. in some places, 40% of cases might be incidental. so that s giving us a little bit of hope. but obviously, hospitals are still stressed in some parts of this country and they have stafg problems on top of it. we ve got a couple of weeks to maybe a month where we have to get through this omicron surge to see where this all settles out. is that how long you think that the surge is going to be with us? the peak of it is now? the peak is going to be different in different parts of the country. places like new york city that got hit hard are already seeing signs they re peaking in terms of cases. hospitalizations lag by about a week and deaths by probably about two weeks. so we ll see where that all settles out. but what we see with omicron is it cycles quickly. maybe two wee