With almost three years of living with COVID-19 come this March, it’s a pretty safe bet to say that we’re all sick of the word, COVID, much less the virus that continues to plague us.The latest COVID numbers reported by the Hidalgo County Health Dept. show an uptick in hospitalizations reported last week, compared to last November – an approximate 300 percent increase.A year ago, the average number of reported positive cases was about the same as what was reported last week, but one has to interpolate the numbers since last year and up through most of the calendar year,