Coronavirus: This Is Why You Should Cover The Toilet Before Pulling The Chain

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Scientists in China are sounding the alarm for what they have discovered in those who have suffered from the spread of COVID-19. Studies reveal that the virus is lodged in the feces of those who contract COVID-19 and that these remain in their digestive tract.

Considering that the virus can cause an upset stomach among some of its many symptoms, it would not be uncommon for diarrhea to help spread the virus. Such suspicions were raised a long time ago in Hong Kong when the current pandemic jumped across China's borders and began to sicken residents of buildings that apparently would not have had contact, raising suspicions that it was human waste through open pipes that was responsible. of the spread of COVID-19 in certain cases.

A study of 73 hospitalized patients in China found that the virus was detectable in feces, indicating that the body is released from the virus through the stool. For this reason, Qingyan Chen, an engineer affiliated with the prestigious Purdue University, in Indiana, assures that to avoid contagion, it is extremely necessary to cover the toilet after use and before pulling the chain, according to Forbes magazine.

Measures to prevent contagion must be careful at all levels:

Masks and gloves, it seems, are not enough:

The reason is that the force of the water gives off an invisible 'feather' of faeces and rust that spreads through the air and whose droplets remain suspended in the environment for a time, according to Chen, who for some time has conducted studies on the spread of viruses through ventilation systems.

This phenomenon is accentuated even more if the toilet has an air pressure system and if the bathroom where it is located has an electric hand dryer, a device that according to studies carried out for years, also spreads feces in the environment.

According to Chen, if we close the toilet lid, we will prevent 80% of the fecal matter that is spread in the environment from being eliminated. Well, something begins.