still going to get a lot of people who are going to get sick and be in the hospital. there may be less relatively speaking than with other variants, but that doesn't mean that you're completely exempt from getting serious illness, so it's ill-advised to be cavalier about it and say, well, who cares, if i get infected. >> we're also learning more about the omicron variant and how quickly it is spreading. it was just a traffic cases in america at the beginning of the month, and now it makes up 73% of all cases. let's start this hour with cnn's elizabeth cohen who is tracking all of this. owe lizabeth, what does the rapid spread of only crop mean? what should people take from this? >> well, people should take from this is very similar to what dr. fauci just said. this is spreading very quickly, and even if the disease is milder, it's going to reach more people. it's going to reach more elderly people, more immune-compromised people and we need to do our