The authors of a new study recommend cleaning the toilet before use and closing the lid before flushing. — via healthing_ca
A new study has added to the long list of behaviours we have to watch in order to ward off COVID-19. And yet, there is likely no cause to catastrophize.out of Yangzhou University in China, research consisted of a computer simulation of the toilet flushing mechanism and showed that the vortex generated by flushing can push out about 6,000 droplets and other tinier aerosol particles.
Flushing can fling anywhere between 40 to 60 per cent of aerosols high above the seat, reaching as high as 106.5 cm off the ground. While the virus is mainly spread person to person through coughing, sneezing and the like, “but some patients have developed gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting, showing that the virus can survive in the digestive tract,” the study says.has found high levels of viral RNA in some patients’ feces.
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