By Matt Stefanski • Published August 10, 2023 • Updated on August 10, 2023 at 11:42 pm NBC 5 News Following a rise in COVID cases and hospitalizations across the country this summer, as well as a “mini-surge” in the Chicago area, questions have surfaced about what precipitated the uptick and whether it can be traced to a specific variant. The EG.5 omicron subvariant, also...