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a CZ. You know, we had original 21 test positive. 19 of them were crew members to our individual passengers of the 2421 passengers. We are processing those two individuals. We process them yesterday with priority because they tested positive. They're part of that 26 individual cohort that was sent out into six different counties for support and care yesterday as it relates to the protocols of how we process individuals. As a noted, those most in need first Californian, second, non Californians third and ultimately will deal with the crew. But within that are the challenges and protocols of keeping families together, which is never easy. Someone may have symptoms. Someone, maybe a symptomatic. Someone may have a loved one that wants to travel with an individual that we may deem necessary to go to hospital to get further diagnostic that diagnostics consequences of that are difficult. So we're in real time trying to figure those protocols out. Some of those have been written about some of those are heartwarming stories, they're human stories, and we have to make decisions in real time of how we conduct and process those but We're trying to keep families together. That's a top priority for all of us and working within the health care system. To do that in a safe and secure manner. We also trying to alleviate the stress, and I will acknowledge this. All 26 individuals didn't need to go to the hospital. Um, in many respects, that's a good thing because the worst thing we could have done is not send people a hospital and then found out later they should have been sent in this case through an abundance of caution. They were sent and not everybody needed to be in the acute environment. That's good news, which means we can then move them. But for those individuals, they have preferred not to have that first step. Now we're moving them to multiple locations We are securing hotels and motels in multiple sites throughout the state of California have been working on this process for the now last week or so since we first anticipated this ship arrival into Northern California. Those include sites in Monterey County State Park that we have secured eight rooms for individuals that are in the Santa Clara system that were sent yesterday. We have sites in around Burlingame on San Carlos that are