Coronavirus Update August 2023
Symptoms of summer COVID cases are the same as what was seen earlier this year.
Coronavirus is on the rise again throughout much of the United States, where EG.5 ― a subvariant of the virus ― now accounts for the majority of COVID-19 cases in the country, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Over the past month or so, we’ve seen a steady but slow increase in the total number of COVID cases. That’s a trend that’s pretty consistent across the country,” said Andrew Pekosz, professor and vice chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
EG.5, also called Eris, might be responsible for many of the cases right now, but subvariants that have been around for quite some time, like XBB.1.16, are also behind the uptick, according to Pekosz.
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