Most, if not all respiratory viruses have an animal reservoir.
They’re not like smallpox, which only ever learnt how to infect humans.
With many people being asymptomatic (or almost) but still carrying enough viral load to infect, it will never run out of human reservoir.
Most, if not all respiratory viruses have an animal reservoir.
They’re not like smallpox, which only ever learnt how to infect humans.
I’ve been wondering about this. I didn’t know what “animal reservoir” was until recently (like most people I guess). My understanding of it is that animals can also catch and transmit COVID-19 and therefore, there will always be this “reservoir” of virus that we have no control over.
To be more specific, we aren’t about to go vaccinating animals, so even if 100% of humans are vaccinated, we aren’t going to eliminate the virus because of the permanent presence of the animal reservoir. Am I missing something?