More than three years in and coronavirus is still a problem.

The CDC says during the last week of July, there were about 9,000 new COVID-19 hospital

admissions.

We do know that in our healthcare system positivity rates of people coming into the ER and the hospital

are up about double compared to a month ago.

This is what it's like for the virus to become endemic.

Bruce Farber is an infectious disease doctor at Northwell Health in New York.

When Farber says this is what it's like for the virus to become endemic, he means we've

reached a time in the U.S. where there's a baseline of COVID around all the time.

The CDC says this uptick in summer cases is not surprising.

And while COVID doesn't pose the same level of threat that it did three years ago, it

is still seriously affecting people.

It often takes weeks until the cough goes away and the brain fog goes away and the

malaise goes away and they're back to exercising to levels that they were before.

So I think people need to keep that in mind when they think COVID is nothing.

Now, Dr. Farber says most of the people he has seen admitted to the hospital were originally

coming in for something else, like a hip surgery or some sort of injury.

Then they end up testing positive for COVID.

Unlike the worst days of the pandemic, very, very few are critically ill with COVID and

very few are dying with COVID.

What's causing this rise in COVID cases?

The CDC says a new sub variant of Omicron and that it may become a dominant strain globally.

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