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Some marine mammals are susceptible to the SARS-CoV-2 virus—perhaps even more so than people. Photo by Toshio Minami/e-Photo/Blue Planet Archive
September 24, 2020
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Some marine mammals carry gene mutations that could make them more susceptible than humans to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus at the heart of the ongoing pandemic. If these marine mammals get infected, the results could be devastating—more than half of the species predicted to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 are already at risk of extinction.

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