and they can detect whether or not the kits, the tests they have right now, whether they will stick pick up that variant. if you look at a virus, a covid virus particle with me really quickly, you can see on the outside, there are those spike proteins, the red little spiky things. that is where scientists say the vast majority of omicron's mutations occurred, in those spike proteins. why these at-home kits still work and other companies say theirs work as well, is because their kits don't rely on that outside part. they go inside for a nucleocapcid. if you think about it as a chocolate with a peanut on the inside, the peanut is what these tests rely on, and for now, that part of the covid particle is relatively unchanged, even in this new variant. here's more. is there a scenario where there could be mutations to the spike