Hunting season came as human cases were spiking, which may have been a bad combo.
Source: New study suggests SARS-CoV-2 spreading widely within wild deer population
“That said, deer could provide a substantial reservoir for the virus. The species studied here, the white-tailed deer, has a population estimated at 25 million in North America, and many of those ungulates are found in areas with high human population densities. The two populations also regularly interact thanks to both hunting and traffic accidents.”
