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I wonder if this means domesticated cats can also carry covid? Are we going to have to worry about some sort of super mutant feline covid jumping back into huma

by DIVx0 5y ago

I wonder if this means domesticated cats can also carry covid? Are we going to have to worry about some sort of super mutant feline covid jumping back into humans later?

h2odragon 5y ago
IIRC the first report of domestic cats testing positive for covid came from Hong Kong in March or April 2020. In other words, we shoulda worried about it then, if we were going to. By this point the wild deer population have it. Happy "zero covid".
lithium_throw 5y ago
Yes, they can. This has been known since early in the pandemic. And I'm supposed to believe it was absolutely necessary to shut myself in my house for months, and then not allow anyone else at all in my house for further months, yet Fluffy could wander around as they pleased. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2013400 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2013400