The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, via the New York Post, that 40% of the white-tailed deer population in four central and eastern states (IL, MI, PA, NY) are infected with Covid-19. It apparently doesn't make the deer sick.
USDA believes the chances of catching the virus from deer is very slight, although it would be wise to mask and glove when butchering a deer taken in a hunt. Cooked, they believe the meat should be safe to eat.
Scientists appear to think the deer caught it from us. No one is ready to hazard a guess about how that happened, we rarely socialize with deer. Maybe deer ticks bit infected humans and then deer? Ticks are a vector we share.
