Vanan Murugesan

There's a new COVID variant that is out there, but it's manageable.

And I just wanted to read what it is because there's a there's a there's a good warning here, because what what I love about and I just highly recommend, especially if you're frankly over the age of 50, because they do a really good job of sort of dealing with the basic questions.

That's the moment we're looking for.

OK, there's a new covid variant.

What should I do?

This is one of my surprising things, and you are probably going to say, yeah, you didn't know that, but newsrooms can be conservative at times in terms of what they're willing to try out from a business model perspective.

All right.

So this new covid variant is called the cicada variant.

It's a descendant of Omicron.

It's been circulating around the globe over time.

It is now accounts for 11 percent of U.S.

I'm fortunate that I'm not in that space.

cases.

And it's you know, they're basically warning, you know.

I work with

So this is the question.

uh i'm in a coalition with other newsrooms like like-minded newsrooms documented in new york uh el timpano in in in the bay area and in connecticut arizona and we are working you know it's funded by press forward uh uh foundation yep you're familiar with that and we are trying to identify new revenue new revenue streams for not just newsrooms but in the immigrant serving newsrooms and so we are you know we are piloting a few things we're testing them out

Is this going to cause a spring or summer wave?

Well, the answer is they don't have much data of how fast it's growing.

But this but their guess is that this will cause a mini wave of sorts.