lost as we ve covered breakthrough cases there is still a very, very sizable difference in risk and exposure in just transmission. it is particularly true of serious illness. covid specifically the omicron variant is ripping through the northeast right now. look at those charts. like it did when it first arrived in the kourn. we don t have apples to apples comparisons because we didn t have the testing infrastructure back then.chd these are charts of cases by state. the red line being the state number straight up hockey stick stuff.k new york, maryland, new jersey. puerto rico one of the most vaccinated places in the u.s. hospitalations in orange, deaths in gray are also ticking up a tad. but those lines are nothing like the red case lines and that is because for people who are vaccinated and boosted it is essentially a cold.ndre maybe a very bad cold maybe a something like the flu which can