Two new unpublished studies suggest that people who have COVID-19 often spread it to their dogs and cats—particularly if they share a bed with their cats—although the pets usually have no or mild symptoms but in a few cases might have severe disease.The studies will be presented at the virtual European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) from Jul 9 to 12.No evidence pets can infect peopleAccording to an ECCMID news release on the first study, researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands dispatched a mobile veterinary clinic to 196 homes of dog and cat owners who had tested positive for COVID-19 from 2 to 200 days before.