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I 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.world)
God forbid she love me or anything
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.