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.
Preventing symptoms is not the same as not catching it.
Also sources please.
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.
