New COVID subvariant, Eris, is now most common and fastest-spreading in US: World Health Organization
are expected to be available in the U.S. by mid to late September, CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen said in a recent interview with Andy Slavitt on the"In the Bubble" podcast.
"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," said Cohen. One potential concern with this new variant, according to Dr. Marc Siegel, a professor of medicine atand a Fox News medical contributor, is that many people have less immunity than they did several months ago because they haven't had a recent shot or case of COVID.
"This may be more of a reason for taking the new booster when it comes out, especially if you are in a high-risk group, elderly or immunocompromised, and haven't had a recent case of COVID or vaccine," he told Fox News Digital.The Omicron subvariants do appear to be predominantly upper respiratory, Siegel noted,"which means they don't go deep into the lungs or cause as much pneumonia or respiratory failure as did earlier variants, such as Delta," he said.
Eris is a subvariant of the Omicron variant . It is not expected to present additional public health risks, the WHO said.‘Never going away’"One thing that Americans must understand: SARS-CoV-2 and its variants are never going away," Osborn told Fox News Digital."It is here to stay because its mutation rate is high,As with other COVID variants, the symptoms of Eris are, for the most part,"benign," said Dr. Brett Osborn.
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