The zoonotic nature of it is super concerning, especially given how many species it now infects. According to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/animals.html
Companion animals, including pet cats, dogs, and ferrets.
Animals in zoos and sanctuaries, including several types of big cats, otters, non-human primates, a binturong, a coatimundi, a fishing cat, and hyenas.
Mink on mink farms.
Wild white-tailed deer in several U.S. states.
That's such a broad spectrum of species and interactions with them. Coatimundi for example are the raccoons of Central America and throw their shit at you while primates are bush meat for impoverished populations. Rats and mice coming inside for the winter and filling our grain silos, a plague in Australia right now, while the deer that aren't consumed by prion diseases are the subsistence hunting food for a good chunk of North America. If we end up getting zoonotic COVID waves in the way we get bird/swine flu, big nope.
The zoonotic nature of it is super concerning, especially given how many species it now infects. According to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/animals.html
Companion animals, including pet cats, dogs, and ferrets.
Animals in zoos and sanctuaries, including several types of big cats, otters, non-human primates, a binturong, a coatimundi, a fishing cat, and hyenas.
Mink on mink farms.
Wild white-tailed deer in several U.S. states.
That's such a broad spectrum of species and interactions with them. Coatimundi for example are the raccoons of Central America and throw their shit at you while primates are bush meat for impoverished populations. Rats and mice coming inside for the winter and filling our grain silos, a plague in Australia right now, while the deer that aren't consumed by prion diseases are the subsistence hunting food for a good chunk of North America. If we end up getting zoonotic COVID waves in the way we get bird/swine flu, big nope.