"It Could Happen" - Biden Administration mandates covid vaccination for 25 species of chipmunks

This Zoo Just Vaccinated 80 Animals Against COVID
BY ANABELLE DOLINER ON 10/20/21
https://www.newsweek.com/this-zoo-just-vaccinated-80-animals-against-covid-1641035

How SARS-CoV-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic
November 10, 2021 Michaeleen Doucleff
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/10/1054224204/how-sars-cov-2-in-american-deer-could-alter-the-course-of-the-global-pandemic

Parts of Lake Tahoe close after chipmunks test positive for plague
Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSN
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210804/Parts-of-Lake-Tahoe-close-after-chipmunks-test-positive-for-plague.aspx

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On Nov 13, 2021 at 5:01:59 PM PST, "chromebook test"
<chromiumtest56@gmail.com> wrote:

> "It Could Happen" - Biden Administration mandates covid vaccination for 25
> species of chipmunks

From the new OSHA rule that implements Biden's vaccine mandate:

"[E]mployers must record on OSHA logs any purported work-related cases of
COVID-19, as well as any other work-related illnesses or injuries, except for
those which appear to be related to employer required COVID-19 vaccines..."

In other words, "we don't want to know or have documented any employee
injuries or deaths that result from taking a vaccine that we forced on them".

On 11/13/2021 7:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2021 at 5:01:59 PM PST, "chromebook test"
> <chromiumtest56@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "It Could Happen" - Biden Administration mandates covid vaccination for 25
>> species of chipmunks
>
> From the new OSHA rule that implements Biden's vaccine mandate:
>
> "[E]mployers must record on OSHA logs any purported work-related cases of
> COVID-19, as well as any other work-related illnesses or injuries, except for
> those which appear to be related to employer required COVID-19 vaccines..."
>
> In other words, "we don't want to know or have documented any employee
> injuries or deaths that result from taking a vaccine that we forced on them".

Horrible! Is another insurrection in order then?

On Saturday, 13 November 2021 at 20:15:15 UTC-5, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2021 at 5:01:59 PM PST, "chromebook test"
> <chromiu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "It Could Happen" - Biden Administration mandates covid vaccination for 25
> > species of chipmunks
> From the new OSHA rule that implements Biden's vaccine mandate:
>
> "[E]mployers must record on OSHA logs any purported work-related cases of
> COVID-19, as well as any other work-related illnesses or injuries, except for
> those which appear to be related to employer required COVID-19 vaccines..."
>
> In other words, "we don't want to know or have documented any employee
> injuries or deaths that result from taking a vaccine that we forced on them".

6000 people have died from the covid vaccine, about 1% of those who died from the influence of covid on pre-existing conditions...

On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 8:02:02 PM UTC-5, chromebook test wrote:
> "It Could Happen" - Biden Administration mandates covid vaccination for 25 species of chipmunks
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> This Zoo Just Vaccinated 80 Animals Against COVID
> BY ANABELLE DOLINER ON 10/20/21
> https://www.newsweek.com/this-zoo-just-vaccinated-80-animals-against-covid-1641035
>
>
> How SARS-CoV-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic
> November 10, 2021 Michaeleen Doucleff
> https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/10/1054224204/how-sars-cov-2-in-american-deer-could-alter-the-course-of-the-global-pandemic
>
>
>
> Parts of Lake Tahoe close after chipmunks test positive for plague
> Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSN
> https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210804/Parts-of-Lake-Tahoe-close-after-chipmunks-test-positive-for-plague.aspx
>
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> https://youtu.be/p0BpMFTYFpU?t=99

(CNN)Scientists have found SARS-CoV-2 spreads like, well, a virus among white-tailed deer and other wild animals in the United States.

People are the likely source, but that doesn't mean the virus can't evolve among these animals and then spill back into humans, and researchers are worried about what this spread means for the risk of future pandemics.

There's little doubt SARS-Cov-2, the virus that caused the ongoing pandemic, came from an animal -- almost certainly a bat. And the prevailing scientific opinion is that there as an intermediate host, an animal of some sort, that was infected by a bat or bats and then infected people.

It's also clear that people can infect animals. Pets such as cats, zoo animals such as gorillas and snow leopards and farmed mink can all be infected. Multiple cases have been reported, and evidence of changes in the viruses infecting mink have led to mass culls of those animals on fur farms.

The latest species to capture the attention of wildlife biologists are white-tailed deer. It's little surprise that farmed deer would catch the virus from people. Any visitor to a deer farm knows the animals behave like goats, shoving their wet noses into the pockets, hands and faces of human visitors or caregivers as they clamor for food and treats -- and setting themselves up for infection.

But how are wild deer catching it?

Viral spread among deer

"If somebody might bite an apple and throw it or even if I sneeze in a tissue and drop it," speculated Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi of the Animal Diagnostic Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University, who helped lead one study published earlier this month that found a third of deer they tested across Iowa between September of 2020 and January of 2021 showed evidence of infection.

Sewage has been found to carry the virus, so polluted water might be a source, he added, or people spitting or contaminating the environment in other ways. The deer may then spread the virus to one another.

"Keep in mind these are highly susceptible animals and while you do not know how much virus they need to be infected," Kuchipudi told CNN. "It raises the urgent question -- we know the deer are effectively transmitting virus among themselves, and then who are they giving it to?"

It's also possible another species could be picking up the virus from people and infecting deer.
"We don't know what's going on in our very own country and we need to find out," said Hon Ip of the United States Geological Survey in Wisconsin.
Viral hotspots among the rodents

Ip and colleagues tested animals they found around a mink farm that was the site of an outbreak in Utah and found skunks, mice and other animals were susceptible to a variety of coronaviruses.

They were originally worried that the mink, which caught the virus that causes Covid-19 from people, might infect the local wildlife. They found no indication of that. "It was a very pleasant surprise," Ip told CNN.

But the mice, raccoons, skunks and other animals carried a load of other coronaviruses. "The number of coronaviruses and the diversity was a surprise," Ip said.

"Our findings indicate an unexpectedly high prevalence of coronavirus among the domestic and wild animals tested on mink farms and raise the possibility that these operations could be potential hot spots for future trans-species viral spillover and the emergence of new pandemic coronaviruses," they wrote in a report published in the journal Viruses in October.

Researchers like Ip and Kuchipudi say much more study like this is needed.

Kuchipudi and colleagues conducted their study after the US Department of Agriculture published research in July that found 40% of deer tested in four states had antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 -- evidence they'd been infected.

There are several reasons scientists do not want to see a virus like the one that causes Covid-19 infecting animals. For one, it creates what's known as a reservoir -- so that even in the unlikely case that everyone got vaccinated and the virus stopped circulating among people, it would still circulate among animals and could re-infect people eventually.

More likely however, is the risk that it could change and evolve. That can happen in two ways.
One is steady adaptation. As it infects different species, the virus will change to better adapt to those species and that could make it either more or less dangerous to humans.

Another route to change: viruses can take shortcuts by swapping big chunks of genetic material in a process called recombination. Influenza is especially good at this, but coronaviruses can do it, as well. If an animal is infected with more than one coronavirus at a time, the two types can mix and match genes and potentially come up with new variants.

"Recombination is one of the major mechanisms for coronavirus evolution," Ip said. So if animals are already carrying their own varieties of coronavirus, and people are then infecting them with strains that cause pandemics among humans -- the potential exists for these viruses to infect animals at the same time, trade genetic material, and give rise to new pandemic viral species.

Pandemic origins
"This raises very urgent questions about the trajectory of this pandemic," Kuchipudi said.
If there are animals out there like white-tailed deer that are so easily infected and that so easily transmit the virus among themselves, that's a red flag.

That means much better surveillance is needed to see what other animals might be getting infected by people or by other animals, and what threat they might pose to other animals and to people.

"We need to be prepared for any variants that might emerge," he said.

Plus, Ip said, surveillance is needed to know what coronaviruses are living in animals that might be the source of the next pandemic -- not just among bats in remote caves in southeast Asia, but perhaps among mice or deer or raccoons in the backyards of the US Midwest.

Coronavirus spreads in deer and other animals. Scientists worry about what that means for people
By Maggie Fox, CNN November 17, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/health/covid-deer-animals/index.html