That's going to be 1600 beds in various parts of the state. We've got a lot of them in southern Florida. And I think that'll be really, really important. If you look at the hospital census for folks with COVID you do have a number of these folks who are in who really aren't seeking or needing continuing medical care, but they haven't yet cleared the disease and so they're not going to be discharged back to the long term care facility. The facilities we have have been accepting a lot of transfers. We're going to continue to do that, but I think that that's really an important tool when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us. (11:12–11:30)
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