COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Hard to say. That person lives in Brooklyn - I think population density could be a factor. But could also be some people are just more susceptible and some are less.

Or could be that the new variants haven’t made their way to be prevalent in your area yet. Kind all wide open right now.

My area is dark red for omicron BA5. I was even in a small contained area with 4 people who had covid for more than 45 minutes as well. No masks or anything.