spreader

How to use spreader in a sentence

• People under 40 became the main spreaders of the virus, accounting for 57 percent of cases between July and August.

  900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia. | Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden | February 5, 2021 | Washington Post

• The evidence now suggests that the role of such “silent spreaders” is substantial, even though they tend to infect fewer people on average.

  So you got the vaccine. Can you still infect people? Pfizer is trying to find out. | Stephanie Arnett | February 2, 2021 | MIT Technology Review

• In the early days of the pandemic, ski resorts across Europe became super spreaders, with visitors transporting the virus like carry-on luggage, threatening other tourists and locals alike.

  What America's Richest Ski Town's Handling of COVID-19 Says About the Country | Lucas Isakowitz | February 1, 2021 | Time

• My goal, in the midst of what I feared was a super spreader event, was to make the room at least a little safer.

  Lawmakers may have been exposed to the coronavirus in Capitol lockdown, attending physician says | Paulina Firozi, Amy B Wang, Mike DeBonis | January 11, 2021 | Washington Post

• Some aides then told told PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor that they felt pressured to attend the event to “save face,” and that they were worried it would become a potential super spreader event.

  HUD Secretary Ben Carson Has Tested Positive For COVID-19 | Kirsten West Savali | November 9, 2020 | Essence.com