omicron especially omicron and delta? well, it s more widespread. we don t know if it s worse. i think one of the biggest struggles is even if it s widespread or milder or not as severe, too many people are infected. which means even if a smaller percentage of people go to the hospital, it will overwhelm hospitals. you re looking at the sports leagues. and there s a meeting today of all the sports leagues getting together and looking at the data, and, you know, it s pretty apparent from sports leagues from colleges looking what s happened with some of the colleges reporting information, they re just spreading really rapidly. but we don t know whether there are more people getting it asymptomatically or in prior forms or they have t-cells in
if you aren t vaccinated a mask plays a role in a public place because you could be infected and spread it. the reason they jumped the gun on the mask guidance for the vaccinated is they don t have information that if you are vaccinated, that you can carry covid and spread it asymptomatically. i talked to dr. walensky about that last week and that information isn t there. if you look at the provincetown outbreak, really interesting. 70% of those who got covid were vaccinated, right? you would think that s a nod towards wearing masks but it was 60,000 people that descended on provincetown. 95% of the people in provincetown are vaccinated. so of course most of the cases are going to be vaccinated. it was only 1,000 cases out of 60,000 people and only seven ended up in the hospital. they were extremely mild. in other words, if all you have is vaccinated people in an