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NBC: Wear A Mask While Exercising And Showering. Maybe Even Two
March 13, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rolled out some guidelines for exercising, and this week NBC News explained them for us. Among the most notable guidelines, as NBC emphasized, is the charge to wear a mask while you’re exercising inside at the gym.
Based on a study of a gym-related COVID-19 breakout in Chicago in the late summer of 2020, the CDC concluded, “To reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in exercise facilities, employees and patrons should wear a mask, even during high-intensity activities (10) while ≥6 ft apart.”
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Fact check: COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than smoking Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY
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The claim: COVID-19 infection can leave worse lung damage than smoking COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than heavy smoking, states the Jan. 21 post shared by The Unbiased Science Podcast. The post includes an image of three lung X-rays that each depict a white cloudiness worsening as it goes from a normal to smoker s to a COVID-19 infected lung.
That the novel coronavirus can cause lung damage is nothing new. The post claims a radiological finding called ground-glass opacities are typically found on chest X-rays of COVID-19 patients and that 50%-80% of these patients are reported to have lung damage. What is concerning is the extent of these sequelae (aftereffects of a disease) and how long they may persist since clinicians have reported this type of lung scarring is present long after COVID-19 infection, The Unbiased Science Podcast states.