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With the coronavirus taking the world by the storm, the last thing you would like to do is to put you or other people at risk by visitingPlaces filled with germs. However, when people get tired of being stuck inside during locking, many look at summer holidays like a chance to escape, especially asSome states begin to reopen. And while the idea of ​​spending a weekend basking by the pool in a complex may seem like a supreme needed - do not slip on your swimsuit. It turns out, taking a dip in the pool could be one of the most dangerous things you can do in a hotel right now.

Although disease control and prevention centers (CDC) indicate that pool disinfection with "chlorine and bromine" could actually kill all traces ofCovid-19 in the water, other germs could make you sick, weaken your immune system and put yourself in danger.

"If they are not properly disinfected, hot tubs and pools can cause diarrhea, rashes and respiratory disease that disrupts our immune system," saysLina Velikova, MD, PhD. "[All this] makes us more about Covid-19."

According to the CDC, one third of the "recreational treatedEpidemics of water-based diseases"From 2000 to 2014, it is produced from a hotel pool or a hot tub, which resulted in at least 27 219 diseases and eight deaths. The most common germ found in these bodies of water isCryptosporidium,which causes gastrointestinal disease and can even survive in properly cleaned pools or hot tubs.Legionella andPseudomonasThe bacteria are the other two common germs found. They can cause severe pneumonia, hot cutaneous rash and swimmer ear.

But the germs of water are not the only things you should be concerned, saysLeann Poston, MD,licensed doctor with medical guest. It is not easy to maintain social distance when in or around an packaged hotel pool. Not to mention, youtouch a lot of surfaces which have been affected by others, from the pool sides with standard hands made of stainless steel. It is important to note that coronavirus can survive up to72 hours on stainless steel surfaces, according to a study in theNew England Journal of Medicine.

Poston also says that even if it would feel safe swimming in a private pool alongside people living in the same house as it, "the inability to maintain a distance of six feet and the inability to contain Respiratory secretions in a public pool setting "Increase the risk of COVID-19 And therefore should be avoided.

"Hotel pools and spas have many guests entering and coming out all the time," says Poston. "There is always the risk of personal propagation to the person if the rules of social hygiene and personal hygiene are not kept." And for more ways than your summer vacation can change, check out the8 things you may never see in the hotel rooms