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Are Swimming Pools Safe From COVID-19?
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Americans can take comfort in knowing that taking a dip should pose little risk of coronavirus infection!
Pools Not a COVID-19 Risk
However, there may be risks at indoor pools that come from large crowds, poor air circulation and contaminated surfaces such as handles and handrails, according to a professor of environmental and ecological engineering, Ernest Blatchley III.
He specializes in research on how chlorine in swimming pools reacts with contaminants such as body fluids, medicines and personal care products.
He said in a university news release that “there is no data to show how the corona virus responds to chlorine but we do know that chlorine effectively inactivates similar viruses”.
“In the U.S. the general guidance for keeping pools properly disinfected is maintaining a free chlorine concentration between 1 and 5 milligrams per liter. If a pool has that concentration, there would be very little infective novel corona virus in the water,” he explained.
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However, the air around an indoor pool is likely “to pose similar risks of corona virus spread as other indoor spaces,” he pointed out.
“A person’s risk would not be affected by the water. The most relevant issue would be contamination of the air or surfaces in these facilities,” said Blatchley, who has studied pool water treatment and chemistry for more than 20 years.
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