the point that compared to where we were a year ago that if you are vaccinated and boosted, you're still very, very well protected against infection and against severe disease. so it's hard. right? because we're sort of analyzing where we are now and the numbers don't necessarily look good, but i will still say that you're still better off, we are still better off than we a year ago. number one. because of vaccination. number two, because we know so much better how to treat covid-19. if you get covid now compared to a year ago you're much more likely to survive even though case numbers of startling even transmissibility of delta and now omicron. >> startaling also, the new study showing omicron infects 70 times faster than previous covid strains. i mean, can you even put that in perspective for us? how quickly does it move and likely we are going to come in contact with someone with omicron? >> well, to the second part,