Can COVID spread underwater?

[letterboy]

Current (22 APR) CDC guidance:



A study about using sewage in Massachusetts to detect COVID spread: SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from clinically confirmed cases

There were early studies that found the virus could survive in waste water. There hadn't been much further discussion on this that I'd seen.

 

[lexvil]

Since it is a respiratory infection I would say the answer to the header question is no unless one can breath water ( in that case still probably no)

can it survive and be rebroadcast “through” water? Still unknown.

 

[CaveSloth]

Since it is a respiratory infection I would say the answer to the header question is no unless one can breath water ( in that case still probably no)

can it survive and be rebroadcast “through” water? Still unknown.

I thought it was contracted through touch or aerosolized droplet contact with mucosa of the eyes, nose & mouth not necessarily through inhalation.

 

[lexvil]

I thought it was contracted through touch or aerosolized droplet contact with mucosa of the eyes, nose & mouth not necessarily through inhalation.

You may be right but I’ll wait to see if anyone does research on this, for now I’m about to offer myself up for the field testing, let me dive and find out.

 

[CaveSloth]

You may be right but I’ll wait to see if anyone does research on this, for now I’m about to offer myself up for the field testing, let me dive and find out.

First you'll need to get some folks with active infections in the water and have them sneeze into it a few times and mix it up real good and then swim through that area lol.

 

[lexvil]

First you'll need to get some folks with active infections in the water and have them sneeze into it a few times and mix it up real good and then swim through that area lol.

I’m in

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

If you pee in the water it turns the Covid bright purple so you can see where it is.

 

[CaveSloth]

If you pee in the water it turns the Covid bright purple so you can see where it is.

I'll have to cut a hole in my wetsuit.

 

[Dan]

I think your chance to get it is approaching to zero if you consider the droplet dilution and you wear underwater PPE (mask and regulator).

 

[tridacna]

https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/can-the-coronavirus-be-spread-through-farts/