Weekly totals of variants in USA
Week 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43
NB.1.8.1 100 65 67 30 17 1
XFG 1041 727 678 394 123 28 2
XFP
Total 1278 869 836 470 161 33 2
NB.1.8.1 % 8% 7% 8% 6% 11% 3% 0%
XFG % 81% 84% 81% 84% 76% 85% 100%
XFP % 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Last Updated: 21st October 2025 16:44 BST — Local:

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.