It’s been just days since a new strain of COVID-19 made headlines across the planet. While the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the new Omicron variant presents a “very high risk,” other scientists, including some with WHO, have stressed that we still have much to learn about the new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus strain’s transmissibility, virulence, and other characteristics. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told CNN’s “State of the Union” that Omicron is likely “more contagious” than its predecessors. He said there isn’t yet any information indicating it causes worse disease than earlier variants. Following upheavals in the stock market when the variant hit the news cycle on Black Friday, investment banking giant Goldman Sachs pushed back, writing that “we do not think that the new variant is sufficient reason to make major portfolio changes.” It cited its view that existing treatments …