Experts have recognized that humans can transmit covid-19 to pets and other animals, but deny pets can pass covid-19 to humans. This article shows cats and ferrets can be amplifying hosts to covid-19, with the pathogen reproducing rapidly in the infected animal. Pets and animals do not transmit pathogens intentionally, but it is unreasonable to believe pets cannot pass pathogens to humans—spillover of pathogens from animals to people (zoonosis) is well documented.

It is important to protect yourself, your children, and your pets from pathogens. Close contact with an infected animal, kissing or sleeping with an infected animal, petting the animal after it licked its fur, or inadvertent contact with animal feces, followed by self-inoculation, risks transmitting pathogens to humans. Feral cats present a particular danger of spreading infectious diseases found in cats, rodents, and birds.

Please, no more rodents in elementary school classrooms!

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/07/science.abb7015