More than 200 people are advised to quarantine after possible Covid-19 exposure at gym

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More than 200 gym-goers in West Virginia are being urged to quarantine after a Planet Fitness client tested positive for Covid-19, health officials say.
"Anyone who was at Planet Fitness between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 24 should stay at home for 14 days since being exposed, which would be until Wednesday, July 8," a statement by the Monongalia County Health Department says, adding that "about 205" people were at the gym during that window of time.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/us/west-virginia-gym-covid-exposure-trnd/index.html
 

1 person tests positive so 200 are supposed to alter their lives for 2 weeks. That will go over well.

Planet Fitness says they going to reclean but I doubt surface transmission will be the issue. Gyms should be required to vent the air outside ie an exhaust system. I've heard stories of gyms raising the ac temp as well even though heavy activity. Can't worry about every single positive especially without an icu admission.
 
WhatInThe said:
1 person tests positive so 200 are supposed to alter their lives for 2 weeks. That will go over well.

Planet Fitness says they going to reclean but I doubt surface transmission will be the issue. Gyms should be required to vent the air outside ie an exhaust system. I've heard stories of gyms raising the ac temp as well even though heavy activity. Can't worry about every single positive especially without an icu admission.
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The quarantine is just in case to help stop the possible spread. How can someone not understand this?
 

There was an article I posted here a while back about an outbreak at another gym where many people in a Zumba class got Covid-19 from the instructor there. One of the people who got it there was a yoga instructor at the same gym. That instructor continued to give classes while contagious but before knowing they had been exposed and infected. However no one in the yoga classes got Covid-19 even though they had been "exposed."

The point of that section of the story is that vigorous activity in an enclosed space is more likely to spread Covid-19 than less vigorous activity.
 
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