So, uh moving on to the covered numbers on this slide, thank you kendra. This is the pandemic curve for arlington, since our first case in march 2020, and I hope that people can see that we have hit our highest number of cases for the entire pandemic. uh In week, 49 of the year. Okay, we hit 501 reported uh cases of covet, I'm going to let people sit with that for a few seconds.

That's a very sobering number, and so there could be numerous reasons for it, including more testing available and more demand for testing, and dr miller will get to that uh in the section on testing.

But I need to remind people whatever the reason it illustrates that we have a lot of cases in arlington, and this is what's happening in the region in the nation and in arlington. As you can see, it has been essentially on a steady rise since the first week of october.