Raj's dashboard, updated this morning, shows Stratus dynasty with diversified XFG.3 family at plurality, accounting for quarter of all samples. Notably, GISAID submissions don't reflect CDC's estimated growth of XFZ & XFV recombinants.
GISAID data for the most recent four-week period is dominated by paltry submissions from New York (80 sequences), followed by Maryland (45), Colorado (41), Minnesota (33), and Illinois (26).
After missing last month's update for reason of government shutdown, #CDC's most recent dataset, updated Friday, finally breaks out estimates for multiple XFG subvariants.
Nowcast suggests three XFG strains have gained significant share in past four weeks, along with two recombinants, XFZ (child of PG.3.2 and XFC.3) and XFV (child of LP.8.1 and XFG.3.3.1).
Note that, in absence of robust data from states, CDC has given up modeling historical estimates, instead giving only shares of reported sequences.
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