Pre-print therefore not peer reviewed. No, I don’t hang out on Twitter all day long. Yes, the study is somewhat geeky. BUT here’s the money sentence:

This abrogation of the species barrier raises the possibility of wild rodent secondary reservoirs and provides new experimental models to study disease pathophysiology and countermeasures.

The B1.351 and P.1 variants extend SARS-CoV-2 host range to mice — https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.18.436013v1

Our new preprint where we show that SARS-CoV-2 VOCs are able to infect mice is out. Collaborative work @institutpasteur *not peer reviewed yet*, short 🧵https://t.co/X6FEk7E6Ft 1/9

— EtienneSimon-Loriere (@SimonLoriereLab) March 19, 2021

Now I can’t stop thinking about “secondary reservoirs”.