Weekly totals of variants in USA (by specimen date)
Week 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
RF.5 6 6 5 2 12 8
Total 53 43 29 30 34 26 1
RF.5 % 11% 14% 17% 7% 35% 31% 0%

Last Updated: 25th July 2026 21:58 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for RF.5

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge GISAID and the many data contributors around the world for sharing SARS-CoV-2 sequences.

This analysis makes use of the Nextclade CLI.
Aksamentov, I., Roemer, C., Hodcroft, E. B., & Neher, R. A., (2021). Nextclade: clade assignment, mutation calling and quality control for viral genomes. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(67), 3773, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03773

Special thanks to Josette Schoenmakers ( @josetteschoenma.bsky.social on BlueSky @JosetteSchoenma on Twitter) for the table concepts.