Today on Boston Public Radio:

Michael Curry talks about the status of the pandemic as the Omicron variant spreads throughout the country, and his reactions to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin rejecting President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Curry is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and a member of Gov. Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 vaccine advisory group. He’s also a member of the national NAACP board of directors and chair of the board’s advocacy and policy committee.

Then, we ask listeners their reactions to Manchin curtailing efforts to pass Build Back Better.

Corby Kummer discusses the potential for an egg shortage as regulations for farmers change, and how to best enjoy oysters. Kummer is the executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Jennifer McKim and Philip Martin share insights from their latest investigation into the sex trafficking of young men, and how traffickers prey on those suffering from drug addiction. McKim and Martin are senior investigative reporters at GBH. Together they’ve been working on a months-long series examining those left out of the narrative around sex trafficking: young men. The latest installment of the series, Unseen, is out today.

The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III commemorate bell hooks, the theorist and activist who championed intersectional feminism, who died last week at 69. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and co-host of the All Rev’d Up podcast. Price is the founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the inaugural dean of Africana studies at Berklee College of Music and co-host of the All Rev’d Up podcast.

Jenna Russell and Penelope Overton explain what climate change means for the lobster industry in Maine. Russell is a reporter with the Boston Globe. Overton is a reporter with the Portland Press Herald. Together they wrote this series in the Boston Globe: The Lobster Trap.

We end the show by asking listeners if their holiday plans have changed as the Omicron variant spreads across the country.