Here is a link to an article that includes info from a retired professor of pathology.
Medical experts are encouraging people to maintain a healthy lifestyle through, walking, jogging, hiking and cycling as long they stay away from other people.
www.eastbaytimes.com
Here is the key quote:
Ellen Jo Baron, a retired Stanford University professor of pathology who directed diagnostic microbiology and virology laboratories for more than three decades, knows a few things about viruses and how they’re transmitted.
Baron’s best advice: Enjoy the outdoors but do it in a fairly isolated, conservative fashion. Don’t stop to talk to others and be mindful not to touch railings, such as those on a bridge or a staircase.
And, most likely, even a tennis ball. [Emphasis added]
“Coronavirus sits on that ball and is happy for a couple of hours,” Baron said.
Dick Gould, Stanford’s tennis coach for 38 years until retiring in 2004, has been telling friends to stay away from the courts because of the uncertainty over the ball. No one knows what that fuzzy green material might collect and transmit between players.
“When it gets right down to it, we need to do the right thing,” Gould said. “Playing tennis is different than walking around the block.”
But by all means, self-isolate with some tennis, he said: Hit a ball against a wall.
