With the world abuzz over the latest variant of concern emerging Fred and I dig into the details of the Omicron Variant, or more correctly ‘Variant of Concern’ (VOC), and how it fits into the pandemic. We discuss the various reactions around the world to the variant.

We discuss what we know and what we don’t about this variant, how transmissible it is, is it more infective and how do our current vaccines hold up?

We close with the story out of Italy where one individual tried to avoid the vaccine mandate by getting his shot in a fake arm.