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Requirement on health care workers who claim religious exemptions. the ruling is expected no later than tuesday. joining me now is michael dowelling, the president and ceo of the largest health care provider in the state of new york. thank you for being here. i want to ask you about these promising trend lines we're seeing in the pandemic, but first, northwell made headlines in announcing that it has fired 1,400 employees who refused to get vaccinated. but you can put it another way. that's less than 2% of your workforce. that's a huge amount of people taking part in the vaccination program. w...

Vaccinated, yes, we will come out of this fine. we today have only 220 covid patients in all our facilities. a year ago we had almost 4,000 in all of our facilities as inpatients. and the numbers are coming down slowly. so yes, we're in a good place. the attitude is good overall. there's a lot of positivity. the employees, the moral is high. i think there's opportunity for confidence here. we should be confident, but always be a little bit aware and alert because you could get a surprise. we should not allow us to be surprised again. >> thank you so much, michael. i really appreciate it. we'll...