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Fortune
Erin Prater

Has COVID-19 become a summer illness? Cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again

Artistic rendering of a crowded beach and coronaviruses on top of it (Credit: Getty Images)

COVID rates in the U.S. have risen for the fourth summer in a row, elevating hospitalization rates and adding more weight to the argument that the virus has found summer seasonality, in addition to winter.

Nationally, COVID wastewater levels are similar to that of every pandemic summer except for 2022, when the world saw a spike due to Omicron variant BA.5. 

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