Weighing the Risks of Public Pools during COVID-19

May 14, 2020

Will it be safe to swim in outdoor public pools this summer, given the COVID-19 pandemic? Will sunshine and heat mitigate the risk?

Yahoo News asked experts, including Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease physician and associate professor of internal medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, who said, “Magical thinking is going to lead to a lot of cases in the coming months.”

Precautionary suggestions from the infectious disease experts and links to additional coronavirus updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are available in the Yahoo News article.