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Tier one, because there's nowhere to bring the individuals. they're in a hospital because they need that setting, and we don't have the capacity elsewhere. i mentioned yesterday that over the previous 11 days or so, we've been able to achieve a 20% reduction in our covid in-patient census across the state of louisiana. the good news is almost all of it happened in southeast louisiana. but there's still 2,450 covid patients in our hospitals across the state in addition to all the other patients that remain in our hospitals. and that is a much higher number than we ever experienced in the first ...

Stronger. is louisiana ready for it? >> well, jake, first of all, thank you for having me on this morning. we're as ready as we can be. this is going to be a very serious test for our levee systems, especially in coastal louisiana and for our people. and it comes at a time that, quite frankly, it presents some very challenging difficulties for us with the hospitals being so full of covid patients. we've got about 2,450 patients as well as other patients in the hospital as well. this is going to be a challenge for us. i can tell you the people of louisiana, particularly along the coast and sout...

The previous 11 days or so, we've been able to achieve a 21% reduction in our covid inpatient census across the state of louisiana. the good news is almost all of that happened in southeast louisiana. but there's still 2,450 covid patients in our hospitals across the state, in addition to all the other patients who remains in our hospitals. that is a much higher number than we ever experienced in the first three surges. so it's still a very daunting situation, and quite frankly we're concerned, as we have been for a long time, about staffing, but they storms have an impact on staffing, too, in...

Can call 211. i don't have all the covid numbers for you today because it's a saturday. we don't typically report them, what i can say is currently we have 2,450 individuals hospitalized across the state of louisiana with covid-19. and i'm very thankful that that's a drop. that's a drop of about 20% in the last ten days. that's very -- >> that's governor edwards of louisiana holding a news conference there on the developments regarding hurricane ida, urging people in the area in the past of the storm to start making preparations now to either evacuate or if they have to stay in place, they und...

>> look, we actually have the entire national guard mobilized. more than 4,000 soldiers and airmen right now, more than 5,000 before landfall tomorrow. we have 650 first responders comprised of a team from louisiana, but 15 teams from another -- other states actually, for urban search and rescue that will commence as soon as possible after the storm passes. one of the real challenging things we have this time that we haven't faced before to this extent, we had four hurricanes last year during covid but we had a small fraction of the number of people in our hospitals that we currently have. we ...