will, as a regular thing. laura: we need it or does moderna need it? what is the evidence of any of this? the oma cron variant looks like an evolutionary mistake a 30 mutations in the spike protein, three deletions and one insertion, almost certainly the receptor body domain has been changed, it is not going to be as infectious. the early reports from the university to indicate the transmissibility index of the oma cron variant is less and delta. doesn t look like it will have the evolutionary efficiency to become a dominant strain. it will be like the lambda and epsilon variants previously described in the recent year.