How to Use transmissible in a Sentence

transmissible

adjective

• The virus is highly transmissible to humans.
• Or is this just more transmissible or cause more than the common cold?
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 29 Nov. 2021
• At the same time, the more transmissible omicron variant BA.2 has been spreading quickly in the U.S. and abroad.
  — Alan Fram, ajc, 1 Apr. 2022
• The case study provided the world with an early hint as to just how transmissible the new variant could be.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2022
• Omicron, in turn, was about three times more transmissible than the delta variant.
  — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2022
• That’s because Delta has evolved to be so transmissible that other variants can’t keep up with the pace of its spread.
  — WSJ, 10 Sep. 2021
• Since the Delta variant is more transmissible, the number of children and teens catching is higher than in the past.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• The new variants of the virus are much more easily transmissible.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2021
• Why this virus is so much more transmissible does not seem to be a property solely of the Spike protein.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• But that all changed with the onerous lockdowns of 2022 spurred by the hyper-transmissible Omicron variant.
  — Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• That is even more true now that the new more transmissible variant dominates the country.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
• Even the most careful person will get the most transmissible virus in history.
  — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
• The delta variant is the most highly transmissible strain seen yet, first emerging in India in late 2020 and quickly sweeping the globe.
  — Sony Salzman, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2021
• They’re expected to be the most immune-evasive, transmissible versions of the virus yet.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2022
• The fact that each Omicron subvariant seems to be even more transmissible than the last only adds to the sense of futility.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• The election comes as South Korea has been grappling with a surge in Covid-19 cases driven by the more transmissible omicron variant of the virus.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022
• For now, Gates thinks the emergence of a variant more transmissible than Omicron isn’t likely.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
• The highly transmissible omicron variant of the virus is prone to making comebacks.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 31 May 2022
• Studies show that omicron is four times more transmissible than the delta variant.
  — Priyanka Vora, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
• Experts said one of the reasons for the rise in cases is the spread of BA.2, a subvariant of the original omicron variant that is more transmissible.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2022
• It was understood as a threat, transmissible across class lines.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
• So far, the BA.2 subvariant, thought by scientists to be the most transmissible version of the coronavirus to date, has not been spreading widely in the U.S.
  — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2022
• As the virus continues to change, newer variants may turn out to be even more transmissible, experts said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• These risks make sense in the context of smallpox, which is more transmissible and more deadly than monkeypox.
  — Tom Inglesby, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022
• Lim and Gerald both noted that more time is needed to see whether the variant is more transmissible or more likely to dodge vaccines.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2021
• Omicron and its subvariants have been spreading for months, with each version more transmissible than the next.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2022
• But as the more transmissible delta variant becomes dominant in the U.S.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2021
• But the super-transmissible virus can spread throughout the body of an infant, triggering high fevers and seizures bad enough to require a visit to the hospital.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022
• The issue is that this new variant is highly transmissible.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 19 July 2022
• Bounce owners and staff met this week to discuss possible changes in policy, given the highly transmissible omicron variant.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024