Believe you are correct regarding the 'short covering' being miniscule. Aero had a reported short position of 15-18 Mil. (which is insignificant) Looks like most of those have covered.
As for the Aero NSS position said by some to be hundreds of millions, if not a billion shares, the data does NOT support those contentions at all.
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