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Building a New Animal Model for COVID
Ferrets and minks have a human-like ACE2 receptor, which is probably why they would have used ferrets. I think the signal here is such a slam dunk. It's 100% effect size. What you're talking about is building a new animal model. Well, no, I'm talking about the fact that ferrets are readily available for influenza vaccine research.