given the drop-offs in places like new york and washington, d.c.? in some places like the cities you just named that may be the case. the united states is huge and there are parts of the united states that are just beginning to feel the omicron pain. let s illustrate what dr. murthy just said. look at the united states. we were looking at this map last week, nearly all dark red. dark red is a dramatic increase. plenty of yellow, which is steady or green where it is going down. let s look specifically at new york. new york in january were seeing 85,000 new cases per day. yesterday was number was 52,000, a decrease of 39% just between january 9th and january 16th.