Nationwide, outbreak.info estimates that BA.2’s cumulative prevalence — which represents a ratio of sequences containing BA.2 to all sequences collected in the U.S. since the subvariant was first detected on Dec. 14, 2021 — is 1 percent.
Weekly estimates of BA.2 prevalence from the CDC suggest the subvariant accounted for 85.9 percent of COVID-19 cases in the week ending April 9, up from 75.4 percent in the week ending April 2.
Below is a breakdown of BA.2 prevalence by state and Washington, D.C., based on data from outbreak.info. As COVID-19 sequencing is not a random sample of mutations, the data represents outbreak.info’s best estimates of the subvariant’s prevalence, as opposed to true prevalence.
Note: Becker’s calculated each state’s estimated cumulative BA.2 presence using sequencing data from outbreak.info. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth.
|
State |
BA.2 positive samples |
Total sequences sampled |
Estimated cumulative prevalence (%) |
|
Rhode Island |
348 |
16,285 |
2.14 |
|
New Jersey |
715 |
58,726 |
1.22 |
|
Massachusetts |
1,470 |
156,179 |
0.94 |
|
New York |
1,550 |
168,839 |
0.92 |
|
Washington, D.C. |
97 |
10,589 |
0.92 |
|
Hawaii |
91 |
11,529 |
0.79 |
|
Connecticut |
300 |
38,721 |
0.77 |
|
Pennsylvania |
406 |
55,300 |
0.73 |
|
Vermont |
113 |
21,097 |
0.54 |
|
Maine |
78 |
16,590 |
0.47 |
|
Maryland |
249 |
53,827 |
0.46 |
|
New Hampshire |
51 |
11,699 |
0.44 |
|
Illinois |
290 |
70,386 |
0.41 |
|
Virginia |
191 |
48,695 |
0.39 |
|
Florida |
536 |
146,315 |
0.37 |
|
Washington |
352 |
97,095 |
0.36 |
|
Wisconsin |
155 |
56,326 |
0.28 |
|
Arizona |
250 |
98,238 |
0.25 |
|
Texas |
509 |
204,868 |
0.25 |
|
California |
1,248 |
528,781 |
0.24 |
|
Ohio |
96 |
46,362 |
0.21 |
|
Nevada |
68 |
33,438 |
0.2 |
|
Michigan |
143 |
70,773 |
0.2 |
|
North Carolina |
140 |
75,832 |
0.18 |
|
Delaware |
24 |
13,798 |
0.17 |
|
North Dakota |
27 |
15,685 |
0.17 |
|
Georgia |
88 |
53,431 |
0.16 |
|
Kentucky |
31 |
21,676 |
0.14 |
|
South Carolina |
31 |
22,027 |
0.14 |
|
Mississippi |
17 |
12,765 |
0.13 |
|
Utah |
105 |
85,159 |
0.12 |
|
Alaska |
14 |
11,626 |
0.12 |
|
Missouri |
30 |
25,894 |
0.12 |
|
Tennessee |
66 |
57,427 |
0.11 |
|
Louisiana |
31 |
28,042 |
0.11 |
|
Oregon |
42 |
44,707 |
0.09 |
|
Minnesota |
100 |
113,058 |
0.09 |
|
Indiana |
29 |
36,972 |
0.08 |
|
Colorado |
141 |
189,972 |
0.07 |
|
Nebraska |
16 |
21,886 |
0.07 |
|
Idaho |
15 |
21,792 |
0.07 |
|
Kansas |
11 |
19,370 |
0.06 |
|
Oklahoma |
3 |
5,349 |
0.06 |
|
West Virginia |
14 |
27,193 |
0.05 |
|
Arkansas |
8 |
16,006 |
0.05 |
|
Alabama |
8 |
17,283 |
0.05 |
|
Iowa |
7 |
17,171 |
0.04 |
|
Wyoming |
7 |
34,039 |
0.02 |
|
Montana |
2 |
15,926 |
0.01 |
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