A new COVID-19 variant has emerged, serving as a reminder that the coronavirus continues to mutate and spread around the world, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.

The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

  • areyouevenreal@lemmy.fmhy.net
    1·
    1 year ago

    It was never claimed to stop you getting it. Same as many vaccines it doesn’t give sterilising immunity.

    They literally claimed that it prevented symptoms in 90+% of people. This is an outright lie.

      • areyouevenreal@lemmy.fmhy.net
        2·
        1 year ago

        Effectiveness when first made available in UK

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55145696

        Effectiveness with Delta variant:

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58257863

        You can’t “sources please” your way out of been wrong.

        I am not suggesting that people don’t get vaccinated, but it’s very clear these vaccines haven’t hit the targets they were meant to. I personally don’t think newer varients count for all of the huge discrepancy between the claims and reality. We need better prophylactics and medicines than this. More widespread use of antivirals might help with this.

        • Lmaydev@programming.dev
          3·
          1 year ago

          If you read my comment I didn’t make any claims About it’s effectiveness. You did. Which is why I asked for sources