THERE ARE THREE KEY REASONS WHY CORONA VIRUS CAN'T SPREAD THROUGH THE WATER.

 

First one, it's a respiratory, not water-borne, illness, meaning it spreads when spit droplets fly through the air. Once they hit the water, they're likely diluted enough to no longer be an issue.

"In general, respiratory pathogens don't survive in the water," Joseph Eisenberg, chair of the epidemiology department at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health”

 

Second, also because it's a respiratory virus, catching it involves inhaling it, not swallowing it, Eisenberg said.

Those two reasons alone are enough to make swimming in fresh or salt water a relatively safe activity, when it comes to avoiding the coronavirus at least

 

 

And finally, when you add chlorine to the mix, the coronavirus is a highly unlikely threat.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "there is no evidence that the virus that causes COVID-19 can be spread to people through the water in pools, hot tubs, spas, or water play areas." It says that treating these types of facilities with chemicals including chlorine should "should inactivate the virus in the water."

 

Chlorinated pools, in particular, pose very little risk from swimming because these viruses are very susceptible to chlorine disinfection," Wigginton said. "The bigger risk from all of these activities would be from interacting with others who are talking, coughing, or sneezing nearby."

 

Hopefully, this information will be useful .

 

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