{"id":111554,"date":"2020-08-18T17:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/using-a-public-restroom-mask-up"},"modified":"2020-08-18T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:13:46","slug":"using-a-public-restroom-mask-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/using-a-public-restroom-mask-up","title":{"rendered":"Using a public restroom? Mask up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-a-public-restroom-mask-up3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think you don\u2019t need to worry about COVID-19 while using a public restroom? A group of researchers from Yangzhou University in China recently reported that flushing public restroom toilets can release clouds of virus-laden aerosols for you to potentially inhale.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s not cringeworthy enough, after running additional computer simulations, they\u2019ve concluded that flushing urinals does likewise. In <i>Physics of Fluids<\/i>, the group shares its work simulating and tracking virus-laden particle movements when urinals are flushed.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers\u2019 work clearly shows public restrooms can be dangerous places for potentially becoming infected from a virus, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Other work has shown that both feces- and urine-based virus transmission is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you don\u2019t need to worry about COVID-19 while using a public restroom? A group of researchers from Yangzhou University in China recently reported that flushing public restroom toilets can release clouds of virus-laden aerosols for you to potentially inhale. If that\u2019s not cringeworthy enough, after running additional computer simulations, they\u2019ve concluded that flushing urinals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}