OMG omicron
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Over the holiday break, epidemiologists around the world did a simultaneous face palm after news about a new COVID-19 “variant of concern.” We’ll catch you up on the omicron variant and what it might mean for the global economy. Plus, Jack Dorsey is out as CEO at Twitter and Amazon workers in Alabama get ready to vote (again.)
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Doctor: Many South Africans Ill in Surge Have Mild Symptoms” from the Associated Press
- “Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal” from Bloomberg
- “Three Things Twitter’s New CEO Should Do to Spark a Turnaround” from Bloomberg
- “NLRB calls new election at Amazon warehouse” from The Washington Post
- VIDEO: “This Christmas We’re Screwed,” Mariah Carey parody
- Thread: San Francisco bus operator rates scene from “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
- And if you’re looking for our banana pants sweatshirt, check it out here
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