We are still at extremely low levels. the good news is that the thing we care most about, people getting really sick, hospitalizations, deaths, they remain low. we have fewer people in the hospital right now than at any point in the pandemic. that s obviously good news. we will want to watch that closely. this variant, if you are vaccinated and boosted you still have a high degree of protection against this variant. katty ska. dr. jha, this is katty kay. i am hearing around me anecdotally more people are getting covid, i ve got my mask out again, but people are not going to hospital. should we now treat it as a common cold and not worry about it? there are a couple of things. first of all, there are still a lot of americans not yet vaccinated or boosted. when they get it the consequences are quite substantial, so we want to continue working on trying to get them vaccinated and