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, 2022-10-18
• 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, 2023-01-03
• So far, the BA.5 subvariant targeted by the bivalent booster is still dominating cases around the world.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 2022-10-25
• 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, 2022-04-14
• The latest version raising alarms is an emerging subvariant of Omicron called BA.2.75.2.
  — Alice Park, Time, 2022-09-26
• 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, 2022-07-07
• 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, 2022-12-07
• If the previous infection was from another Omicron subvariant, that estimate rises to 76%.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 2022-07-27
• According to health officials, the BA.5 omicron subvariant is fueling the ongoing surge.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2022-08-11
• 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, 2022-07-21
• 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, 2022-07-13
• The latest Omicron subvariant that has become dominant, XBB.1.5, is highly transmissible.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-01-06
• 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, 2022-12-20
• 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, 2022-09-24