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[–] cdf12345@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just fyi, cat’s can get covid

[–] appel@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Came here to say this as well. OP, it sucks but please keep a safe distance from your cat. And get well soon!

https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/covid-19/pets.html

[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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.