USDA Seeks Input on Deer-Human COVID-19 Spread Survey
Published Date: 9/25/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Agriculture wants your thoughts on a new survey about how people and deer might spread COVID-19 to each other. This info helps them do their job better and keeps the survey easy and quick to fill out. You’ve got 30 days from September 25, 2025, to share your comments online—no money changes hands, just your voice!
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2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Large deer–COVID survey in five states
The USDA/APHIS-funded survey will ask individuals or households in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee about interactions with white-tailed deer related to SARS‑CoV‑2. The study plans to collect responses from 60,000 people with a total respondent burden of 7,868 hours; public comments on the information collection are open for 30 days from September 25, 2025 (until October 25, 2025).
Survey data will be publicly accessible
The notice says all data and metadata used in peer-reviewed publications will be made publicly accessible in a data repository per USDA Departmental Regulation 1020-006. That means information collected for the study of human–deer SARS‑CoV‑2 transmission will be shared publicly.
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