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KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
Thu May 21, 2020, 05:29 PM May 2020

Intense fitness classes can lead to rapid spread of COVID-19, report shows

Intense fitness classes can lead to rapid spread of COVID-19, report shows
By Rachael Rettner - Senior Writer

Read it here: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-fitness-dance-classes-south-korea.html

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The researchers noted that the classes involved many people engaging in high-intensity exercise in a small space — a pretty ideal environment for COVID-19 spread.

"The moist, warm atmosphere in a sports facility coupled with turbulent air flow generated by intense physical exercise can cause more dense transmission of isolated droplets," the authors said. The number of people in a class also appeared to play a role in disease spread: Typical-size classes, with up to 22 participants, resulted in disease spread, while small classes with fewer than five people did not result in any spread of COVID-19, the report found.

Interestingly, one of the infected instructors also taught yoga and pilates, but none of these students became infected. The authors hypothesized that the lower intensity of these activities did not result in the same level of transmission as the high-intensity fitness classes.

Overall, "because of the increased possibility of infection through droplets, vigorous exercise in closely confined spaces should be avoided during the current outbreak," the authors concluded.

Fitness gyms opening around the nation is bound to result in many new infections. Fortunately, most gyms in my area (north central KY) show "temporarily closed" on Google maps, although at least one chain outfit shows open.

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Intense fitness classes can lead to rapid spread of COVID-19, report shows (Original Post) KY_EnviroGuy May 2020 OP
This is great news! at140 May 2020 #1
Not good news for many sports .. Jarqui May 2020 #2
cant they wear masks? Blues Heron May 2020 #3

Blues Heron

(5,898 posts)
3. cant they wear masks?
Thu May 21, 2020, 05:48 PM
May 2020

Fucking fitness spreaders - gross. I'm sure people can find a way to work out away from other people i.e. don't run up a busy sidewalk without a mask - find a place where you can be separate. Wear a mask. Don't be a gross spreader.

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