Two major banks have revised their near-term projections for U.S. economic growth following the late-summer rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

After weeks of declining cases of COVID-19 and promising economic news, the delta variant of the virus has pushed the contagion back into the spotlight and is starting to cause economists to revise their expectations of economic growth this year.

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