You probably won’t get COVID-19 from flushing the toilet
Research done over the past few months suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, survives in the GI tract and can remain viable in your poop in a process charmingly known as “viral shedding.” (Unsplash/)When you live in the world, you are faced with two unavoidable truths: public bathrooms, generally speaking, are grotty, and yet, the time will come when you must visit one. Often poorly ventilated and haphazardly cleaned, these spaces (at even their most scrubbed) aren’t spots you’d want to eat your lunch. Now, they have given scientists studying COVID-19 fresh worries. Research done over the past few months suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, survives in the GI tract and can remain viable in your poop in a process charmingly known as “viral shedding.”We already knew that not everything that comes out of your body stays in the porcelain bank after you make a...