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Like clockwork, the summer resurgence of COVID-19 has become as expected as the changing of seasons.

Emergency rooms are seeing a 15% increase in treating people who have COVID, and hospitalizations for severe cases are up 25%. Signs of the virus that causes COVID found in the nation’s wastewater are also trending upward, mirroring a curve seen last summer as well.

The highest reported rates of positive COVID tests are in the region that includes California, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii, where 10% or more of tests are showing positive. The positive rate remains below 10% throughout the rest of the U.S., and less than 5% of tests are positive throughout most of the Southeastern U.S. and up the coast to Pennsylvania. Head over to WebMD to read the full story.