Thanks for the tip. After running those commands I see this error:
http://it1.mirror.vhosting-it.com/centos/7.9.2009/os/x86_64/repodata/6d0c3a488c282fe537794b5946b01e28c7f44db79097bb06826e1c0c88bad5ef-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Which led me to someone else having a similar problem: Slow update, yum error - #2 by dnutan
I deleted that file and re-ran the yum commands, the error did not pop up again. I’ll report back next time I do a system update. 