As long as pets and other animals can contract COVID-19, the virus will likely never be completely eradicated, Chicago’s top doctor said Tuesday.
As long as pets and other animals can contract COVID-19, the virus will likely never be completely eradicated, Chicago's top doctor said Tuesday.
"For me, the concern about seeing COVID not just in dogs and cats but in animals in general, it tells us that there's what we call an 'animal reservoir for COVID-19' and that means that it's one of the most important things that makes it very unlikely that we would ever eradicate completely -- get rid of COVID. Because as long as there are animals that are able to have it, there are, you know, that remains a risk," Chicago Department of Public Health commissioner Dr.
"One of the reasons we have rabies vaccines is that rabies is a really deadly human disease and can be a problem there," Arwady said. Some animals have already been vaccinated against COVID, Arwady noted, although most of those cases were in zoo settings.
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