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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by akira2501 on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:18PM (#28282111)
> We know that dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mink, white-tailed deer, a gorilla, and a tiger have been found to have been infected with covid-19.

How do we know this? PCR test? At what threshold? Or, antigen test? Is there a guinea pig antigen test for COVID?

I'm suspicious of this reasoning due to the apparently complicated and necessary natural pathway this virus used to become infectious to humans in the first place. This apparently doesn't apply anymore?

> Of diseases that get as widespread as this, with animal reservoirs

The contact with those reservoirs needed to be much more than casual in order for infections to pass. I'm not sure this logic applies to a SARS virus.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by rossdavidh on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:24PM (#28293647)
Well, the virus got from (presumably) humans to all of these other species, so it seems not too hard to imagine that it can go back the other way.

In the case of mink in Denmark, they were convinced that new variants that emerged first in the mink had made it back into the human population.

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