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Before we get going on this week's Corona Pod, a quick disclaimer.

Last week on the show, we talked about a new variant first seen in Botswana and detected by scientists in South Africa.

We now, of course, know the name of that variant, Omicron.

And the concerns surrounding it are indeed continuing to grow, with global actions being taken,

from travel bans to booster campaigns, even the announcement of new vaccines being developed.

But as I'm sure you've heard reported on the news a lot recently, as of yet, we still don't really know the details of new vaccines being developed. But as I'm sure you've heard reported on the news

a lot recently, as of yet, we still don't really know the details of what Omicron is going to mean

for the pandemic more broadly. Researchers are working fast and working hard to get to the bottom of

this, and we're writing about these efforts as quickly as we can in Nature's pages. I'll put a link

to where to find those

stories in the show notes. But the story is very fast moving, and podcast isn't the fastest

of mediums. Already many of the things we said on last week's show are out of date. The variant is not,

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