and now, these reports that 15 people in the district -- teachers, staff members -- have died from covid in the last ten days. how concerned are you about where we are in this pandemic tonight? >> so, i am extremely concerned about what we have been experiencing. please, bear in mind that the people who are reported to have died acquired covid quite a few weeks ago. so it's not really reflective of exactly what's happening right now. that -- that's -- that's a really important thing to bear in mind. we -- we are getting a slight decrease in our number of people hospitalized but we still have extremely high rate of hospitalizations here. # and um, i think it's really important that people understand that our communities need to have as much good, solid information and truthful without a lot of emotion so that people can take the actions that encourage them to do the right things. many studies have already shown