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Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by londons_explore on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:17AM (#29351476)
96% of mammel biomass are humans, pets, or farm animals.

We could vaccinate all of those. If we needed to do the last 4% of wild animals, I'm betting we could vaccinate more than half of those too.

Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by jmnicolas on Friday November 26, 2021 @01:14PM (#29352552)
We have trouble managing rats infestation in certain zones, good luck vaccinating them as fast as they reproduce!
Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by Mountain_Skies on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:27AM (#29351579)
Does the collective mass matter? Seems like the important number would be the number of mammals, not their mass.
Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by dredmorbius on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:43PM (#29352271)
Biomass is a rough proxy for prevalence.

There are remarkably few mamallian species with > 1m population. Virtually all are grazing animals, sea mammals, or rodents.

I'm not sure what species SARS-COV-2 is compatible with, though I've mostly heard of animals > 5kg mass (e.g., domesticated cats, dogs, deer, wildcats), with the very notable exception of bats.

The virus has been detected in 20--40% of sampled deer in the US in multiple states, which is a particularly bad sign.

If it's gained foothold in rodent populations ... well, it could be around for a while.

From April of 2021:

Results obtained from experimental studies indicate that animal species such as cats, ferrets, raccoon dogs, cynomolgus macaques, rhesus macaques, white-tailed deer, rabbits, Egyptian fruit bats, and Syrian hamsters are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and that cat-to-cat and ferret-to-ferret transmission can take place via contact and air. However, natural infections of SARS-CoV-2 have been reported only in pet dogs and cats, tigers, lions, snow leopards, pumas, and gorillas at zoos, and farmed mink and ferrets. Even though human-to-animal spillover has been reported at several instances, SARS-CoV-2 transmission from animals-to-humans has only been reported from mink-to-humans in mink farms.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8128218/?report...

That's not to say that broader transmission isn't possible (the abstract doesn't mention deer, and I'm aware they're found to be infected). The science is still being established.