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Jan 11, 2024 · (If you’re losing track of all these subvariants of the omicron variant by this stage of the pandemic, that’s understandable. To recap: The swell of COVID-19 cases in summer 2023 was fueled by EG.5, unofficially nicknamed “Eris” by some online just as XBB.1.16 before it was nicknamed “Arcturus” — even though the World Health Organization has revised its naming conventions to ...
- Carly Severn
Oct 5, 2023 · “I am not aware of data that suggests EG.5 leads to worse cases of COVID-19 compared to prior variants,” says Scott Roberts, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist. But early reports have shown EG.5 has been spreading faster than any other currently circulating strain.
- kathy.katella-cofrancesco@yale.edu
Aug 16, 2023 · New COVID ‘Eris’ variant: The symptoms, how dangerous it is and whether vaccines work. Published Aug 15, 2023. Yahoo News. 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 ...
Aug 15, 2023 · 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 ...
- Rebecca Corey
Dec 27, 2023 · Its numbers have slowly declined after peaking in September, and are now down to about 5 percent. EG.5 — also called Eris — is a descendant of the Omicron variant XBB.1.9.2 and has one notable ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Over a two-week period ending on Saturday, EG.5 — which some health experts on social media nicknamed “Eris” — made up an estimated 17.3% of new cases nationwide. That’s up from just under 12%...
Aug 10, 2023 · EG.5 is a recent COVID variant very closely related to the XBB variants that have been circulating here in the U.S. for the past six months. Notably, it contains one particular mutation that is known to evade some of the immunity that you get after an infection or vaccination.
