The latest on omicron: Bad news, good news, and the best news of all
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The WHO is warning of a "very high" global risk from the omicron variant. However, the South African doctor who first raised alarm about the variant says its symptoms are "unusual but mild." In The Daily Article for November 30, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison reminds us that the reality of our mortality is unchanged, but we can use this reminder to empower us for eternal purposes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
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| 0:35.1 | You'll push back against the encroaching darkness we're facing as evangelical |
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| 1:04.9 | generously to change our culture for Christ. |
| 1:10.3 | Miriam Webster has chosen vaccine as the 2021 word of the year, and for good reason. |
| 1:18.0 | Let's start with the bad news. |
| 1:20.1 | The World Health Organization is warning of a very high global risk for the Amacron variant. |
| 1:26.9 | Its most jaw-dropping feature is the 32 mutations |
| 1:31.3 | that affect the spike protein and could enable it to evade immune defenses from vaccines |
| 1:37.3 | or antibodies from COVID-19 survivors. Vaccine makers said yesterday that they are working on vaccines that specifically |
| 1:46.4 | target Omicron in case their existing shots are not effective, but it could take months to produce |
| 1:53.5 | them. Now to the good news. The South African doctor who first raised alarm about the variant |
| 2:00.2 | says its symptoms are |
| 2:02.6 | unusual but mild. |
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