Hospitalizations soaring to unprecedented heights over the winter. since then, new subvariants have continued to pop up and are driving the latest uptick in infections one of them makes up more than 1/3 of cases. research suggests the new versions are getting better at evading protection that means if yo contracted omicron, you could get sick again. so it s just a way of the virus getting smarter. that happens every time it reproduces this means it triggers more people getting infected reporter: but in glimmer of hope, the severity of cases does not appear to be worsening. hospitalizations and deaths aren t rising as quickly, which the white house attributes to treatments and testing. but estimates of 100 million infections by fall or winter if we don t get ahead of this thing, we re going to have a lot of waning immunity this virus continues to evolve, and we may see a sizable wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths this fall and winter