A new study indicates that the gymnasiums are safe. Here's why you should always avoid them.
In Norway, working as a gym is low risk. But experts say it's not true in the United States.
AsReopening displacement In many parts of the country, Americans face an overwhelming amount of choice for what they are willing - and unwilling to make coronaviruses still spreading. A recent study suggests that surprising activity can be safer than the one you have assumed. But although Norway researchers have discovered that working at the gym was not particularly risky during the coronavirus, health experts say it's not yet true of the United States.
The Government of Norwegian sponsoredA recent study, which has not yet been examined by peers, compared two groups of young adults without underlying conditions. A group has returned to work in a fitness center, although several safety precautions in place, and one does not. The objective was to see if there were more new infections and / or hospitalizations in the gym group. Only one gymniron tested positive for the coronavirus, and it was determined that he was infected with his work.
Norway, however, is in a very different situation than the United States that the country has recorded less than 9,000 coronavirus cases overall and less than 250 deaths, compared to our 2.5 million cases and nearly 126 000 deaths. InThe New York Times Coverage of the study,Doctors not involved in the tests Weighed on what, if anything, the results could mean the rest of the world. The most agreed that the results say more about the risk of low coronaviruses throughout Norway than on the gymnasiums in particular.
"This shows us that low prevalence environments are safe for gyms and probably just about everything else",Gordon Guyatt, MD, Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, told theTimes. "It is very unlikely that you are infected."
By this logic, here in the United States, the risk of contracting coronavirus makes almost any activity is greater. "Currently, the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States is almost 300 times higher than in Norway"William Li, MD, scientific physician and angiogenesis president, explains toBetter life. "For this reason, we can not apply the results of the Norwegian study to US gymnasiums. "
Norwegian study participants were encouraged to wash their hands, cleanse their equipment and maintain social distance. They did not have to wear masks, but they were not allowed to use the showers of the gym or sauna. Even with these precautions in place, exercise with other people inside pose his dangers.
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"Compared to a restaurant with outdoor seats, gymnasiums are usually likely to be a higher risk place due to the number of people who can work in a closed space, with low ventilation, many high contact surfaces and Many difficult expirations could produce respiratory droplets, "says Li.
"In a gym, you breathe heavily and more likely to spread the virus, which aerous air independently of the limited capacity," explainsJanette Nesheiwat, MD, medical medicine of the family and emergency. And for more than this era of the pandemic,These four states where CVIV-19 cases are plants have a break paused.
