(CNN) To the best of current scientific knowledge, can you get the coronavirus called Covid-19 from your dog or cat? Or give it to them?

"No. I think the idea that we're going to give this virus to our pets or we're going to get it from them is just nonsense," said Dr. John Williams, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

"This is not simply my opinion. I'm a virologist, an infectious disease doctor, and I'm just saying there's no scientific evidence for that," stressed Williams, who has studied various coronaviruses for decades.

"I'm going to debunk that also," said infectious disease expert Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventative medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.

"We don't have to worry about pets -- this virus now likes humans but data show it's not spreading among pets or farm animals," Schaffner said.

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