How to Use SARS-CoV-2 in a Sentence

SARS-CoV-2

noun

• Have humans and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of Covid, reached a detente?
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Apr. 2026
• Also, many tests—or SARS-CoV-2 assays—are difficult to perform in large numbers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 July 2020
• The other is that the SARS-CoV-2 mutates about as often as the Kardashians change outfits.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• The above quantum sensor for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses only low-cost materials.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2022
• Therefore, a reminder, any reminder of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein at least every year or so, could keep your immune system more attuned.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• Mpro, an enzyme that allows SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in host cells, holds structural similarities.
  — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
• The researchers conducted SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen testing twice a week to diagnose infection.
  — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• The current gold-standard test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus takes several hours to create enough copies of the virus’s genetic material to detect.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2022
• But drugmakers elsewhere have largely steered clear of vaccines made from live cells infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which pose obvious dangers to workers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2020
• The reporter completely mischaracterized my comments made on numerous occasions over the past 16 months about 'masks' and the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
• After injection, these viral vector vaccines produce the important SARS-CoV-2 protein fragment inside the body, triggering an immune reaction.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2020
• When the SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants emerged in the spring and fall of 2021, mRNA vaccines became less effective in preventing infections.
  — Deborah Fuller, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
• Before Covid-19, pandemic preparedness centered largely on influenza, only for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 to expose the risks of building response systems around a single viral threat.
  — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 10 Aug. 2026
• And a comprehensive 2024 study in the journal Cell looked at samples from a wet market in Wuhan, finding that those that tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus clustered around a stall where live animals were sold.
  — Eric McDaniel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026
• In 2020, during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many people had a deeply emotional, intensely personal, and perhaps somewhat obsessive relationship with a macroscope.
  — Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
• WastewaterSCAN's dashboard shows high levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the wastewater nationally over the last 21 days, including in Michigan.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Environmental samples collected from the market, specifically in areas where wildlife sales were predominant, contained SARS-CoV-2 genetic material.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Aug. 2026
• During Covid-19, the world mobilized unprecedented resources to develop SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics.
  — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 1 July 2026
• Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
• In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Generate Biomedicines has applied its platform to designing antibodies and peptides that can neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2020
• In a new study led by The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (The Florey), researchers have discovered that a SARS-CoV-2 infection in male mice can alter their sperm, leading to changes in an offspring’s brain and behavior.
  — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
• Following wave upon wave of COVID-19 outbreaks during the pandemic, this winter brought a triple whammy of the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variant, along with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2023
• Moderna's mNEXSPIKE is a newer mRNA vaccine that targets two specific parts of the spike protein, which the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 uses to attach and infect human cells.
  — Ava Tsapatsaris, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
• File photo of an employee of the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) preparing the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 for vaccination in a vaccination center, taken in Bavaria, Germany, in January 2021.
  — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
• Their project, dubbed Modeling and Control of COVID-19 Propagation for Assessing and Optimizing Intervention Policies looks at various factors that can impact the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including virus mutations as well as preventative measures such as mask wearing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2020