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With other variants, saw where changes were made, and determined whether or not the rapid antigen test would still work. big picture, if you can look at a covid virus particle for a minute with me, you notice there are little red dots, spike proteins all on the outside. i process everything through food, so pretend with me that those are chocolate covered peanuts. the outside part would be the red spike proteins. let s say that s chocolate. that s where most of the mutations in the omicron variant have occurred. at-home rapid antigen tests, whether abbott s or another brand, they do not rely on the outer part of that virus particle, the chocolate part, for their test. they use the peanut inside. and that peanut, which is a nuke nucleio protein, that has not changed so far. that s a positive sign because their tests are still working. there are ten different companies in the united states ....