Chlorine is evidently very good at inactivating the virus. The CDC says it is not spread by pools or hot tubs. Nothing is certain in this time, but being in the pool is very likely much safer than the grocery store.
I don't doubt this whatsoever. They, in my estimation, are discussing the presence of COVID in the water, the water entering your mouth and you contracting the virus this way. I've no issues with this. I'm a water distribution and treatment operator so I have some understanding of water disinfection principles, but what I'm wondering about isn't something that I've dealt with before. My question has more to do with the air being breathed along the surface of the pool. Assuming a pool patron, lap swimmer or water polo athlete were sick and shedding virus as they exhaled, then what? Would other nearby persons not then inhale said virus? It's been reported that the virus can remain suspended in the air for hours. 67King made a good point about the virus that is exhaled into the water might never re-emerge. Assuming this is true, it doesn't speak to the exhalation that takes place above the water. I often get my breathing out of sync during sets and will find myself exhaling a bit as I'm rotating to take a breath. Surely I can't be the only one who does not always exhale under water.
Chlorine is evidently very good at inactivating the virus. The CDC says it is not spread by pools or hot tubs. Nothing is certain in this time, but being in the pool is very likely much safer than the grocery store.
I don't doubt this whatsoever. They, in my estimation, are discussing the presence of COVID in the water, the water entering your mouth and you contracting the virus this way. I've no issues with this. I'm a water distribution and treatment operator so I have some understanding of water disinfection principles, but what I'm wondering about isn't something that I've dealt with before. My question has more to do with the air being breathed along the surface of the pool. Assuming a pool patron, lap swimmer or water polo athlete were sick and shedding virus as they exhaled, then what? Would other nearby persons not then inhale said virus? It's been reported that the virus can remain suspended in the air for hours. 67King made a good point about the virus that is exhaled into the water might never re-emerge. Assuming this is true, it doesn't speak to the exhalation that takes place above the water. I often get my breathing out of sync during sets and will find myself exhaling a bit as I'm rotating to take a breath. Surely I can't be the only one who does not always exhale under water.
