@burke @akanter This is a very bad decision IMO, the COVID concepts do not belong in Reference Application, rather they should be part of a custom module and distribution focused on the COVID response, otherwise it ties OpenMRS to COVID, yet there is more to OpenMRS base usage than COVID. This is a similar approach that I recommended for disease specific and vertical distributions on top of RefApp
@elkinleon this will however happen whenever you upgrade Ref App due to the concepts that are dependent on the numeric IDs. I would suggest you increment the numeric IDs of all concept related tables by 5000000 (Five Million) before you start creating custom concepts.
I have a blog post coming this week that details this approach