Nov 30, 2021 / 02:40PM GMT
Vijay Muniyappa Kumar - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division - Senior MD
Okay. Thanks, everyone, for joining us. I'm Vijay Kumar, cover med tech and tools here at Evercore. Pleasure to have Hologic with us. We have CFO, Karleen Oberton; and the new Head of IR, Ryan Simon, with us.
Questions and Answers:
Vijay Muniyappa Kumar - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division - Senior MDMaybe, Karleen, to kick things off, a lot of questions around this new variant, Omicron, and -- can these molecular diagnostic tests, whether it's PCR antigen detect them, can your test, COVID test detect the new variant? And maybe we'll start there.
Karleen M. Oberton - Hologic, Inc. - CFO
Vijay, it's a pleasure to be here with you today. Yes, we actually issued a press release on that, that confirming that all three of our COVID-19 tests do pick up the new Omicron variant. We specifically designed our test with the idea that there would be mutations in the future. And so we do have affirmation that we do