"Are COVID-19 cases on the rise again?"

Inside Edition interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public,  about a rise in COVID-19 cases across the United States caused by the new "EG.5" variant.

"We've started to see a rise in COVID nationally. We've seen it globally as well," Rimoin said. "This is the same trajectory that we've seen over the last several years. Starting in August, we start to see cases going up."

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