Small study, and half the patients in the COVID-19 arm also had antibiotics, but apparently even after you control for this…
COVID-19 moves in to the gut like a squatter, chucks out your friendly gut bacteria and hangs out with the bad bugs!
H/T @jmcrookston ->
COVID-19 moves in to the gut like a squatter, chucks out your friendly gut bacteria and hangs out with the bad bugs!
H/T @jmcrookston ->
No GI symptoms persisting to indicate the gut carriage of COVID-19 either.
Sneaky.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32442562/
Sneaky.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32442562/
Live virus is shed in stools by COVID-19 patients for many weeks, if it becomes a part of the gut biome, this could be an extraordinarily long time.
We will need to think about how sewage is treated and discharged into the environment, and safety of shared toilets.
We will need to think about how sewage is treated and discharged into the environment, and safety of shared toilets.
People that work with sewage wear respiratory protection anyway, but in future everyone, including childcare workers and care sectors will need to consider the use of respiratory PPE when cleaning human waste/assisting with toileting.
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