other parts of the country are in an omicron firestorm. here are the vulnerables. first of all, i think there is a narrative out there, happy talk that covid omicron is less severe than previous lineages. we don t really know that. part of the reason i say that is both in south africa and the uk, what happened there is omicron dove tailed right on their delta wave. as a consequence, most of those or a lot of those omicron infections were actually reinfections. so it may have given the illusion that it was less severe. but i don t really know that yet. so i am really concerned that now that we are starting to see hospitalizations increase in new york and washington and elsewhere where we are seeing these big surges and on top of that we have the vulnerability and the fact that so many of our health care workers are now getting breakthrough covid. not so much that they are sick enough to be admitted to the