however, hospitalizations are way down. what do we know about this variant? does it not cause as much severe ills in as other variants or all the vaccination keeping infections milder? what is it? like everything, alex, a little bit of everything. the ba.2 subvariant is more infection, meaning easier to give and get, than the original omicron we had over the last winter. so it is easier to, more infectious. why you re starting to see uptick in cases, but to your point, not more severe. severity on par wit other omicron. what s different now? a huge amount of this country that s been infected and in the recent surge, giving some immunity. still waiting for the data to see if it gives protection against ba.2 and honestly watching hospitalizations closely, because those it come after those infections rise. can i ask, the extent to which there are second and third cases of covid? do we have any idea if you ve