LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 1 year agoI have Covid and Pixel decided to pet my head while I was coughing. She looked disgusted when I asked her what she was doing.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1348arrow-down1imageI have Covid and Pixel decided to pet my head while I was coughing. She looked disgusted when I asked her what she was doing.lemmy.worldLaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekbotc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year agoEh… As long as it’s an indoor cat, it’s likely fine. University of Minnesota did a study on this early on in the pandemic. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dog-cat-owners-covid-19-often-pass-it-pets You’re liable to give your pets COVID, but they don’t seem super troubled by it at this moment, and optimizations that arrived with Omicron to increase spread in humans actually dropped spread in companion animals. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.13.488132v1.full.pdf/ I expect as what should now be considered HCoV-SARS-2 optimizes more and more for the human tissue, cross over will get increasingly uncommon.
Eh… As long as it’s an indoor cat, it’s likely fine. University of Minnesota did a study on this early on in the pandemic.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dog-cat-owners-covid-19-often-pass-it-pets
You’re liable to give your pets COVID, but they don’t seem super troubled by it at this moment, and optimizations that arrived with Omicron to increase spread in humans actually dropped spread in companion animals.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.13.488132v1.full.pdf/
I expect as what should now be considered HCoV-SARS-2 optimizes more and more for the human tissue, cross over will get increasingly uncommon.