Oh deer 🦌 … US Dept of Agriculture reports half of all wild deers in Michigan have gotten #SARSCov2 infection. Worrisome. “a human disease cannot be eradicated when it is in animal reservoirs” ~ @larrybrilliant—he led the global eradication of smallpox.
arstechnica.com/science/2021/0…
arstechnica.com/science/2021/0…
2) “Why check deer in the first place? The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is studying a variety of species "to identify species that may serve as reservoirs or hosts for the virus, as well as understand the origin of the virus…
3) “and predict its impacts on wildlife and the risks of cross-species transmission." This is the same group that identified the spread of the virus to a wild mink in 2020. arstechnica.com/science/2020/1…
4) sobering… "Herd immunity is not relevant as we are seeing plenty of evidence of repeat and breakthrough infections," says Dr. Jeffrey Shaman, a Columbia University epidemiologist. We might be getting stuck with #DeltaVariant if we don’t act fast.
salon.com/2021/07/31/wil…
salon.com/2021/07/31/wil…
5) “The vaccines — they're beautiful, they work, they're amazing," Dr. Frances Lund, a viral immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told the Times. "But they're not going to give you that local immunity."…
6) …Vaccinated people will be contagious for a much shorter time, Dr. Lund told the Times. "But that doesn't mean that in those first couple of days, when they're infected, they can't transmit it to somebody else."
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