New COVID-19 variant ‘Eris’ spreads across US, other countries (www.livenowfox.com)

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EG.5, which is unofficially nicknamed Eris, has already become the most prevalent variant in the U.S.

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[-] Echo71Niner@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Here we go, again.

[-] jeanofthedead@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Aug 9 (Reuters) - Currently spreading COVID-19 variants such as EG.5, or Eris, do not represent a major shift and updated vaccines in September will offer protection, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

"Right now, what we're seeing with the changes in the viruses, they're still susceptible to our vaccine, they're still susceptible to our medicines, they're still picked up by the tests," Director Dr. Mandy Cohen said in an interview on former Biden administration adviser Andy Slavitt's "In the Bubble" podcast. "We're seeing small changes that are what I would call subtypes of what we've seen before."

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