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by throw10920 1612 days ago
> The deer samples were anywhere from 14% to 70% COVID19 infected.

...with an overall rate of 36%, which is given in that very article that you linked. It doesn't matter if 70% of the deer at one site were infected, if the average is significantly lower than that.

...which isn't even relevant, because again, you're moving the goalposts, as stated above.

> You're grossly underestimating the amount of COVID19 we have spread to the deer population

I'm not underestimating anything, as one of the researchers said: "there is no documentation of deer transmitting the virus to humans or vice versa"[1] (another article which you have linked but apparently failed to read).

...and, as a previous study found[2], the virus does not spread effectively outdoors.

You're literally fabricating claims from thin air. There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever for effective human-deer or deer-deer COVID transmission.

[1] https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2022/01/07/deer-ohio-inf...

[2] https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2021/08/how-safe-ou...