Julie Nolke explains the pandemic to her past self, part 5

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I’ll come back and tell you in December.

Just kidding, but I am sorry to be the one to tell you…

Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 3)

Researchers already knew white-tailed deer were capable of infection because they have similar receptors as found in humans, Rabinowitz said, so it’s not a surprise that deer would show exposure in the wild. What’s concerning, he said, is the potential for the virus to inhabit an “animal reservoir,” where the virus spreads and mutates among a new host, in this case, deer, and not cause illness in the host but could reinfect recovering human populations and cause illness. “Widespread human inf…

We have a ton of deer around here, so this news freaked me out.