Bug cov nat
- closes #53115 

@jbrockmendel, @WillAyd, could you please take a look? @jbrockmendel, I made the updates Thanks @fbourgey  @fbourgey could you make a follow up PR adding release notes to the 3.0 whatsnew? I think this is being called a bug fix, and not an API breaking change? @TomAugspurger

#61586