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AMANDA: Alright. And finally, one question-asker says, “I heard that mosquitoes can also transmit COVID-19, and that 50% of the population will carry the virus in the future. Is that true?”
Dr. LIO: So no, we don’t have any evidence of mosquitoes transmitting the disease. There’s definitely a lot of myths floating out there. When you hear something like that, I would double check it with a source that’s reputable so that we’re sure that what we think we believe is actually true. We have seen that there are other animals, though, we recently saw that a couple cats have gotten infected with COVID. So it’s possible that some animals can get it. And so we’re recommended that we treat those the same way we treat humans too, in keeping distance from those, or not touching them, not handling them when we’re sick. So definitely check your facts, make sure you have them right.
With regard to the question about 50% of the population getting it in the end, we hope that doesn’t happen. If that does happen, that means we’re going to have a lot of people in the hospital. Hopefully what will happen is that we keep the numbers down, the numbers of people getting infected down as much as possible, and we have a vaccine. Once the vaccine is effective, and once we have given it to most of the people here in the country, then people don’t have to get infected in the first place to be immune to COVID.
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阿曼达: 好的。最后一个提问者问，“我听说蚊子也能传播新冠，未来 50% 的人群会携带病毒。这是真的吗？”
刘医生：不会，我们没有任何关于蚊子传播新冠的证据。现在社会上一定有许多关于疫情的谣言。当我们听到此类信息时，我们应当双重检验这类信息，看其是否来自可靠的出处。我们这样做，可以确保我们了解的信息是真实的。然而，我们已经看到有其他的动物，比如几只猫感染了新冠。所以动物感染新冠是有可能的。因此，我们建议和人类相处的同样方式对待这些动物，比如，与其保持距离，不要触摸它们，不在我们生病的时候处和它们相处。所以，一定要核实你的信息，确保你的信息是准确的。
关于大约 50% 的人口终将感染疫情这个问题，我们希望不会发生。因为如果发生了，就意味着我们将有很多人住院。我们所希望的情况是，将感染的人数保持在低水平，尽可能减少感染人数，并且尽快获得疫苗。一旦我们有了有效的疫苗，并且将其普及于全国大多数人，那么人们就不需要经受新冠的感染才产生免疫力了。