Accordingly, we treated 9-week-old male Syrian hamsters with SCFA water for 2 weeks before intranasal infection with 5x105 infectious units (IU) of a replication-incompetent vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) pseudovirus expressing SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and nanoluciferase (designated pVSV/Spike-nLuc). Here, CHMP5 is linked to infection.