{"id":171192,"date":"2023-09-03T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-covid-vaccines-from-pfizer-moderna-and-novavax-will-likely-protect-against-eris-variant"},"modified":"2023-09-03T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:25:00","slug":"new-covid-vaccines-from-pfizer-moderna-and-novavax-will-likely-protect-against-eris-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-covid-vaccines-from-pfizer-moderna-and-novavax-will-likely-protect-against-eris-variant","title":{"rendered":"New Covid vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax will likely protect against Eris variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-covid-vaccines-from-pfizer-moderna-and-novavax-will-likely-protect-against-eris-variant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drugmakers designed their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/16\/fda-covid-shots-should-target-omicron-subvariant-xbbpoint1point5-this-fall.html\">updated vaccines<\/a> to target the omicron subvariant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/04\/xbbpoint1point5-omicron-subvariant-is-the-most-transmissible-version-of-covid-yet-who-says.html\">XBB.1.5<\/a>, which is slowly declining nationwide. But health experts and initial data suggest that the new shots will still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/17\/moderna-covid-vaccine-effective-against-eris-fornax-variants.html\">be effective<\/a> against Eris, or EG.5, and other widely circulating variants \u2013 all of which are descendants of omicron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that these vaccines will provide very substantial protection against EG.5. Maybe just a little bit of loss, but it\u2019s nothing that I\u2019m very concerned about,\u201d Dr. Mark Mulligan, director of the NYU Langone Vaccine Center, told CNBC. \u201cIt looks like we\u2019re going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All three companies are still waiting for the Food and Drug Administration to approve their vaccines, meaning those jabs won\u2019t be available to the public for a month or so. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has to decide which Americans should get the shots and how often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drugmakers designed their updated vaccines to target the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, which is slowly declining nationwide. But health experts and initial data suggest that the new shots will still be effective against Eris, or EG.5, and other widely circulating variants \u2013 all of which are descendants of omicron. \u201cI think that these vaccines will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}