It's Tuesday, November 30th. I'm Gideon Rezick. And I'm Josie Defi Reis. And this is What a Day.

We're still supporting Matthew McConaughey and his race to be governor of acting.

Yes, he said that he's out of the Texas race, but we would still like to see him in the great big

governor's mansion called Hollywood, California. To sign in laws, let's say lights, camera action.

You know what I mean? I do know what you mean. On today's show, Jack Dorsey Stepsdown,

as Twitter CEO, plus the leftist presidential candidate in Honduras, has the lead in early election

results. But first, we have more on the latest on the Omacron variant of the coronavirus.

Ever heard of it? No. Over the last 24 hours, world leaders and health officials had more to

say about it, even as we wait for more scientific information to come out. Here's Dr. Tedros,

Audinam Gaiberiases, the director general of the World Health Organization yesterday.

We shouldn't need another wake-up call. We should all be wide awake to the threat of this virus.

But Omicron's very emergence is another reminder that also many of us might think we're done with COVID-19.

It's not done with us. That is not the best thing to hear.

Gideon, can you say a little bit more about what else the WHO had to say?

Yes. They put out this so-called, quote-unquote, technical brief on Sunday,

getting into the variant and what they know a little bit more. They said, in part,

that Omicron poses a, quote-unquote, very high global risk. Now, there's a lot more to it.

The warning to member states was essentially that the many mutations that scientists have detected

in the variant, quote, may confer immune escape potential and possibly transmissibility

advantage in common English. That means it might be better at evading vaccines and natural

immunity and might be better at being transmitted. But again, there are lots of ifs and mites here

in the early days. They mentioned that much is still unknown at the moment to that point.

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