Microsoft to Lay Off 3% of Global Workforce
May 14, 2025: Microsoft has announced plans to reduce its global workforce by approximately 3%, affecting roughly 10,000 employees across multiple departments.
- May 18, 2025 3:27 am
- California
August 21, 2023: Moderna says the new Covid vaccine was effective against the Eris variant.
The drugmakers developed their updated vaccines to aim 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 and other circulating variants, all of which are descendants of omicron.
“I think that these vaccines will provide very substantial protection against EG.5. Maybe just a little bit of loss, but it’s nothing that I’m very concerned about,” Dr. Mark Mulligan, director of the NYU Langone Vaccine Center, said.
All three companies are still waiting for the Food and Drug Administration to approve their vaccines, meaning those jabs won’t be available to the public for a month or so. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must also decide which Americans should get the shots and how often.
Still, the upcoming arrival of those vaccines offers some reassurance to Americans as Eris and other Covid variants fuel a slight uptick in cases and hospitalizations across the country but remain below the summer peak that strained hospitals this time last year.
Eris accounted for 17.3% of all cases in the U.S. earlier this month, according to the latest data from the CDC. The new strain surpassed XBB.1.5, which accounted for roughly 10% of all cases.
The World Health Organization designated Eris a “variant of interest,” meaning it will be monitored for mutations that could make it more severe.
But the health agency and experts said Eris does not appear to bring a significant threat or no more than any other omicron variants currently circulating in the U.S. It’s also not expected to cause a massive wave of Covid cases like different strains have in previous years.
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