maintaining hospital operations and that s where the federal government assets may come in very handy. systemically, i don t think we ll see what we saw like last year because so many have been vaccinated. we have more tools. it s not the beginning of the pandemic. it s sort of a new phase because over 200 million people, 61% of the population are fully vaccinated. dr. o neal, louisiana is one of a few states where hospitalizations have risen by at least 50% compared to last week. that is nowhere near the peak the state saw in the fall. what are you seeing right now in your facility? we re seeing in our facility today a tripling of admissions over the last week, and a tripling of e.d. visits. the combination caused us to be scare in our number of tests we re able to provide to patients as they come in to seek care. when you come into the doors of the hospital, we re seeing our vaccinated patients aren t getting sick and our frail vaccinated patients need admission, but their admiss