It's Wednesday, January 5th. I'm Gideon Ressick.

And I'm Priyanka Arabandi and this is what a day where we are celebrating Elizabeth

Holmes for stepping aside to make room for new entrepreneurs who do bloodscans.

That's right, by getting convicted of fraud, she is making way for the next generation

of dangerous fraud.

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Yes.

On today's show, a record number of US workers left their jobs last November plus the death

of the classic Blackberry.

But first, we are back to talking about COVID because the Omicron variant has absolutely

exploded in the US over the past couple weeks. It's led to thousands of cancel flights

since Christmas, a return to remote schooling for some kids, maxed out testing capacity

in certain communities, renewed concerns over already strained hospital systems, and

much, much more.

Yeah, and on Monday alone, the US reported an astonishing record 1.08 million cases.

Wow.

Now, that did include a backlog from the holiday weekend, but the CDC currently estimates

that Omicron is responsible for something like 95% of known infections through January 1st

to give a sense of how quickly we reach that number. At the beginning of December, that

was about 1% or less.

Yeah, it's insane. That's due to Omicron's increased transmissibility and the ability to

evade the initial line of defense that vaccines offer, even as they continue to protect against

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