Given that the line of best fit for employment growth in the health care and social assistance fields in Ontario can be modeled by the equation y=11.8x+590.4, where y represents the number of employees in thousands and x represents the number of years since 2010, determine the number of employees in these fields in 2018.

The population is in thousands. The numerical answer needs to reflect that. For example 696.1 means 696100.