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EAST PROVIDENCE The owner of an indoor aquatics center with a state-of-the-art air-circulation system is imploring the state to follow federal guidelines for swimming pools and allow her to reopen.
Susan Pascale-Frechette cites the Centers for Disease Control directives for pools, adding that she wasn’t initially included on the list of indoor sporting facilities that have had to close for Gov. Gina Raimondo’s now three-week “pause” – and was added only after she started asking questions.
“All you’re doing is bringing a person into a chlorinated pool where the virus doesn’t live,” said Pascale-Frechette, owner of Pods Swimming on Commercial Way. “And if you have an air-handler unit that brings 100% outside air in, there’s no concern.”
Swimmers face unique set of COVID-19 challenges
“I’m scared to death, to be quite honest.”
Indian Creek swimming and diving coach Brad Smith didn’t dance around it when asked whether he had concerns about his team’s season being impacted by the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.
And he’s got good reason to worry. With coronavirus numbers hitting alarming highs across Indiana the state had the worst infection rate in the country last week, according to The COVID Tracking Project and more than half of the counties in the state now in the red on the color-coding chart, in-person schooling and high school athletics are on shakier ground than they’ve been since the spring, when an entire season was wiped out.