Notifications

Clear all

📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G.

New COVID 'Eris' variant

Yohanan · 2023-08-16T10:21:01Z

New COVID 'Eris' variant: The symptoms, how dangerous it is and whether vaccines work Rebecca Corey·Writer and Reporter Tue, August 15, 2023 There’s a new COVID-19 variant dominating infections in the U.S. EG.5 — or “Eris,” as it’s been nicknamed — was identified in China in February and detected in the U.S. in April, and now accounts for more than 17% of COVID-19 cases nationwide, which is the most of any variant. Here’s what you need to know about the new variant. How do symptoms compare to other COVID-19 variants? “We haven't seen a radical departure that [EG.5] is going to cause new symptoms or that it's going to look a lot different,” Dr. David Alain Wohl, an infectious diseases professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells Yahoo Life. “We don't see anything that indicates that the virus is evolving to be more dangerous.” EG.5 is a subvariant within the Omicron family of coronaviruses, so it’s pretty closely related to the XBB variant that’s been circulating for a while and was dominant months earlier. You can’t tell which variant you have just based on symptoms (that requires genomic sequencing, which isn’t a routine part of clinical care). But you can expect symptoms from EG.5 to look a lot like what we’ve come to know from other COVID-19 variants, including: Fever Cough Stuffy or runny nose Sore throat New loss of taste or smell “We're at a very, very early stage of the game,” Dr. Jessica Justman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University School of Public Health and senior technical director at ICAP, tells Yahoo Life. “But from everything I'm seeing and reading and hearing, there's no reason to think that this variant is likely to be more virulent, to cause more severe symptoms, to cause more hospitalizations or more deaths than any of the other more recent variants.” The World Health Organization has classified EG.5 as a “variant of interest,” but said it doesn’t seem to pose any more of a public health threat than other variants. But while EG.5 doesn’t appear to be any more dangerous, experts say it isn’t any weaker either. If your symptoms from EG.5 seem less severe than what you experienced with a previous COVID-19 illness, it’s not because the virus is losing strength — it could be the result of your own built-up resilience. “It's very hard to interpret new symptoms with a new subvariant, because not only is the virus different, but we're different. We have more immunity,” Wohl explains. “If you have more immunity because you had Omicron before, or you had the vaccine, or you had a booster, that changes how the virus is going to impact you. So you will likely see fewer respiratory infections deep down in the lungs.” Is Eris more or less contagious? A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Politico that “there is no evidence indicating EG.5 is able to spread more easily, and currently available treatments and vaccines are expected to continue to be effective against this variant.” So why the increase in cases? Every year, we’ve seen a slight rise in COVID cases in the summer, so experts say the recent uptick isn’t too surprising. “If you look at a graph of hospitalizations going back over three years, this is the smallest uptick so far,” Justman says. “[There were] 9,000 admissions in the last week in the United States due to COVID, as of July 29. Last summer, around the same time, it was 45,000. So it's just a completely different order of magnitude. This is a very small uptick.” Justman points out that with the ubiquity of at-home test kits that can be used outside a doctor’s office, new case counts likely underestimate how many new cases are out there and aren’t as reliable as higher-quality data, such as hospitalizations and emergency room visits. So it could take a while before we get the full picture of how prevalent EG.5 really is. “The way COVID works is, first there's a rise in the number of cases, then there's a rise in hospitalizations, usually between a week or two weeks after the rise in cases. And then the deaths — if there's going to be an increase in deaths — will take at least another couple of weeks,” she says. “So it's a little too soon to be confident that this is not going to have a higher mortality rate, but there's no evidence yet to say that it does have a higher mortality rate.” Will vaccines and boosters protect me from EG.5? Although the bivalent vaccine currently in use was designed to work against the BA.5 subvariant, which accounted for most COVID cases last summer, Wohl says it still appears to offer some protection, because there’s just enough overlap between these Omicron subvariants. The new vaccine that will be available this fall is designed to combat XBB, which is one subvariant removed from EG.5. “It's going to be really hard to completely keep up with every single dominant variant that's circulating on the planet, but XBB will be a step closer to getting us a kind of protection against what's circulating, a...

Page 2 / 3 Prev Next

Main Forum

Last Post by Patricia N. 3 years ago

12 Posts

6 Users

0 Reactions

2,549 Views

RSS

Posts: 4883

Geri9

Registered

August 23, 2023 5:06 am

(@geri9)

Illustrious Member

Joined: 5 years ago

Good to see you :bye: Watching 47, you’ve been hiding behind the scenes. Are you a tea or coffee drinker? B-)

Posts: 140

watching47

Registered

August 23, 2023 4:27 am

(@watching47)

Estimable Member

Joined: 5 years ago

What am I going to do? No jabs, no lockdowns, or masks for me. Fauci to slip to the mick after we are taken up.

Posts: 4883

Geri9

Registered

August 19, 2023 5:41 am

(@geri9)

Illustrious Member

Joined: 5 years ago

Yeah … very intriguing with the “timing” and aiming for the lockdowns to be in-sync with the chaos following the rapture. B-)

Posts: 1385

Terry

Registered

August 18, 2023 9:29 pm

(@terry)

Famed Member

Joined: 3 years ago

Mid-September, hmm.

Posts: 1600

KolleenWStone

Moderator

August 18, 2023 5:36 pm

(@kolleenwhitestone)

Noble Member

Joined: 7 years ago

https://www.infowars.com/posts/exclusive-intel-federal-officials-blow-the-whistle-on-bidens-plan-for-new-covid-lockdowns/

Federal Officials Blow the Whistle on Biden’s Plan for New COVID Lockdowns
The Alex Jones Show
August 18th 2023,

Whistleblowers from the TSA and Border Patrol have raised the alarm to Infowars that the Biden administration is setting the stage for full Covid lockdowns that will begin with incremental restrictions like masking TSA employees and other government employees in mid-September.

Page 2 / 3 Prev Next

RE: PRAYER REQUESTS & ANSWERS

My Dad is in hospital again with the same symptoms, he ...

By Loz , 3 hours ago
Tracking Bible Prophecy Headlines - 06/26/2026

Tracking Bible Prophecy Headlines - 06/26/2026'Maybe on...

By AmyVG , 10 hours ago
RE: POLITICAL NEWS 2026

POLL: More than Half of Democrats Want to Leave America...

By Patricia N. , 23 hours ago
RE: ISRAEL UPDATES

IDF won’t withdraw from Lebanon – even if US demands it...

By Patricia N. , 23 hours ago
RE: ISRAEL UPDATES

Sanhedrin to America: The Iran deal is a fantasy, and i...

By Patricia N. , 23 hours ago
RE: QUAKES & CALAMITIES

Venezuela declares state of emergency after back-to-bac...

By Patricia N. , 23 hours ago

12 Forums
7,152 Topics
61.4 K Posts
61 Online
758 Members

Forum Icons: Forum contains no unread posts Forum contains unread posts

Topic Icons: Not Replied Replied Active Hot Sticky Unapproved Solved Private Closed