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Well, good morning. We'll go ahead and start this morning with an update on the numbers. Today we had 96 new positive cases for a total of 1995 positive cases. No new county. So we have 82 total counties, 407 negative cases today for a total of 17,874 negative taste test. Um, the state hygienic lab has 3000 and 48 tests available. We have 908 Iowans that have recovered for recovery rate of 46%. And I am sorry Thio report this morning that we have had four additional deaths. One elderly adult in Polk County, one elderly adult in Clayton County, one older adult in Allah McKee County and one older adult in Johnson County for a total of 53 deaths in Iowa. The Department of Public Health has also confirmed one additional long term care outbreak at Wilton Retirement Community in Muscatine and this Burt County, and this brings our total number of long term care facility outbreaks to seven more than 10% of Iowa's total number of Positive cove it 19 cases and 49% of our deaths are related to a long term care outbreaks. All dozen Iowa are among older or elderly elderly individuals and those with underlying health conditions again underscoring the importance of doing our part to protect our most vulnerable population. Today, the Department of Public Health is sending testing supplies to Wilton Retirement Center so that additional residents can be tested were also sending an additional 900 test to the Tyson plant in Louisa County. And this will be in addition to the 200 tests that were sent last week. I also want to provide a look at the R. M. C C data from a statewide perspective this morning, as we announced yesterday. The information is now available on a new online dashboard at Corona virus dot Iowa dot gov. Across all of our our MCC regions yesterday, there were 171 cove it 19 patients hospitalized, 20 were admitted in the last 24 hours. 78 patients are being treated in icy use, and 43 are on ventilators. Also in hospitals across the state, there are 7930 inpatient beds, 533 I seeyou beds and 718 ventilators that are available for patient care. You can easily access the same information by region on the dashboard at Corona virus dot Iowa dot gov.