Things We Saw Today: New Covid Mutation Is an Unlikely ‘Futurama’ Callback — The Mary Sue

Whelp, a new COVID variant just dropped. The SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529, aka the Omicron variant, was first reported in South Africa, and has since popped up in Botswana, Hong Kong and Belgium. The World Health Organization has designated Omicron as “a variant of concern”, citing the unusually high number of mutations which could make the…

Things We Saw Today: New Covid Mutation Is an Unlikely ‘Futurama’ Callback — The Mary Sue

I hope we call the next one Lrr.