Echoing patterns in prior years, coronavirus infections are slowly ticking up in parts of the country, the harbinger of a possible fall and winter wave.
But the numbers remain low for now, and are unlikely to reach the horrific highs seen in previous winters, experts said in interviews.
Wastewater analyses point to the highest increases in the Northeast and the South, followed by the West and Midwest.
After hitting a trough at the end of June, hospitalizations are inching upward again, but fortunately very slowly.
Test positivity has risen to 7.6 percent, a level last seen in November 2021, and that summer, just before the Delta variant swept the nation.
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