Can I go to the gym?

Some thoughts from leading experts yesterday:

Albert Ko, the chair of the department at the Yale School of Public Health

If you do go to the gym, again, maintain distances. Disinfect places in the gym people are always touching. Wash your hands regularly. Much of the transmission is person to person with people coughing, sneezing, or touching their nose and mouth and touching somebody else. You can get transmission on surfaces; that’s probably a little bit lower-risk, but we still should disinfect surfaces that we touch.

Carolyn Cannuscio, the director of research at the Center for Public Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania

If you’re going to go to the gym, try to go at a time when there are very few people there and definitely wipe down the equipment. However, as the weather warms in many parts of the United States, I would instead recommend that people go outside for walks or runs or bike rides in areas where there are not other people. This is really about depriving the virus the opportunity to move from one person to another.

We have outside areas to keep your space, keep your exercise habits and hopefully your sanity as we work through this challenge. Keep calm, wash your hands and don’t worry about sweat, its good for you.