How big could this peak be? What kind of case numbers are we potentially looking at? We know that we may be looking at, on homecron infections in the u k come the end of the month. And i think what we probably care about morer is hospitalizations. So to put thet in perspective, we had in january, which was our biggest peak of hospitalization so far in the pandemic - over four thousand hospitalizations a day.
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