NEW YORK -- Have a runny rose? Cough? Headache? It might be a summer surge in COVID cases hitting New York City. City and state data shows the disease is on the rise, and experts say the uptick should be a warning to New Yorkers that the pandemic is not over yet. Driven possibly by indoor, air-conditioned gatherings and perhaps fading immunity to variants, the summer surge has pushed the number of COVID-related hospitalizations up from 4.41 hospitalizations per 100,000 residents to 10.22 per 100,000 in the middle of the month, the latest available data. Dr. Jessica Justman, an infectious disea...
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