How to Use subvariant in a Sentence

subvariant

noun

• The subvariant that makes up the most cases after BA.5 is BA.4.6.
  — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2022
• That’s consistent with the symptoms reported in the U.K. in the spring, when the BA.2 subvariant was dominant.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 7 July 2022
• In both the city and the state, more people are hospitalized with Covid-19 than at any point this summer, when the BA.5 subvariant drove a notable increase.
  — Sarah Cahalan, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• For at least the past two weeks, the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of omicron has been dominant in the United States.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Some of the areas seeing the large upticks in hospitalizations are those where the new subvariant, XBB.1.5, is most prevalent.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2023
• The latest version raising alarms is an emerging subvariant of Omicron called BA.2.75.2.
  — Alice Park, Time, 26 Sep. 2022
• Covid cases and hospitalizations are on the rise in the U.S. and around the world as the extremely contagious omicron BA.5 subvariant continues to spread.
  — Madeline Halpert, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• So far, the BA.5 subvariant targeted by the bivalent booster is still dominating cases around the world.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2022
• The current surge is driven by a new omicron subvariant, BA.5, which accounts for nearly 80% of cases now, and is marked by the greater decoupling of hospitalizations from cases.
  — Carey Goldberg, Bloomberg.com, 21 July 2022
• The subvariant of omicron, named XBB.1.5, has raised concerns about another potential wave of Covid cases following the busy holiday travel season.
  — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
• According to health officials, the BA.5 omicron subvariant is fueling the ongoing surge.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• So far, no evidence suggests that the subvariant is inherently more severe than its predecessors.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2023
• For instance, the genome sequences presented as early ancestors of Omicron had many mutations expected in a precursor, but also some that are typical of the Omicron subvariant BA.1, which evolved later.
  — Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 20 Dec. 2022
• In addition to being able to re-infect people and evade vaccine protection, the BA.5 subvariant also is significantly more transmissible than previous strains of the virus.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2022
• If the previous infection was from another Omicron subvariant, that estimate rises to 76%.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 27 July 2022
• Variants, boosters, what’s ahead? Helix, a company that sequences positive samples, found the BA.5 omicron subvariant, which fueled a wave of infections this summer, is the dominant strain circulating in Florida.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2022
• The latest Omicron subvariant that has become dominant, XBB.1.5, is highly transmissible.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• For those who get boosted, the current shot—a second-generation bivalent booster—targets the currently dominant circulating strain, BA.5, an omicron subvariant.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024