Your coat and Covid-19

The virus is affecting animals, the mink being one example. Denmark, the home of more than 15,000,000 minks, is a major supplier of mink furs to the world.

Well, the country thinks that a mutation in the novel coronavirus has infected and could possibly interfere with the effectiveness of a vaccine for humans. Hence, the government will slaughter millions of mink at more than 1,000 farms.

Mink problems are not unique to Denmark. The minks in Utah are also infected. Mink on two farms have become the first in the United States to test positive for the coronavirus, state and federal officials state. Five animals on the two farms tested positive for the virus, but many more are believed to be infected because of a recent upswing in the number of mink deaths on the farms.