get vaccinated. get boosted. wear your mask. socially distance. stay home if you are sick. our next guest is the regional chief medical officer for ssm health oklahoma, dr. wenfry. thank you very much for being with us. there s a line that jumps out from what you tell us about what s happening in oklahoma that i want to read here. it s like asking wounded soldiers to come out of the hospital and go back to the battlefield before they re even remotely healed. give us an idea of what it looks like in your hospitals. well, we are very crowded. under ordinary circumstances, we have an inward and outward flow of patients that s pretty much in balance. right now, we have the perfect storm of a highly contagious virus that s infecting more and more people every day. we have an unprecedented seven-day average of 10,000 cases, that includes our staff. that s where the perfect storm comes in. without staff, we cannot keep our hospital beds open for the