Can Covid19 infect beneficial gut bacteria in humans?

I have wondered the opposite. I have wondered if all the soaps and sanitizers were killing beneficial bacteria which might fight it off.

Neither is true.

How can you be sure? Not that I question your intelligence, but this covid thing seems to have medical experts twisting in the wind.
It is one of those, you don’t know the things you don’t know deals. The pediatric heart situation caught everyone by surprise.

Of COURSE antibiotics kill good bacteria—ESPECIALLY in the gut.

Human viruses can’t infect bacteria just like viruses that infect bacteria don’t infect humans. Viruses are basically just dna / rna and need the working parts of the cell in order to make copies of themselves and are expecting particular proteins/enzymes and what have you to “run” their “program” on. A human virus finding itself in a bacteria cell would be like a trying to run a Mac program on a PC.
And unless your drinking disinfectant like your glorious leader suggests hand sanitizer is unlikely to effect your gut bacteria.

OP is Canadian. Did somebody up there recommend drinking a disinfectant? That would explain a lot, because some people think our President Trump did that.
It makes sense, because anyone who does not know the difference between asking for clarification, and making a suggestion, might also not know that North America has more than one country, and quite a few leaders.

1) “Do we need to protect our beneficial gut bacteria also from Covid19 and its treatments?”
No. This virus does not attack bacteria.

2) “I have wondered if all the soaps and sanitizers were killing beneficial bacteria which might fight it off.”
The assumption you make in this is incorrect. Bacteria does not “fight off” the virus. Soaps and hand sanitizer will kill bacteria as well as virus. That’s called “Preventing the spread of disease”

3) “Medical experts twisting in the wind” is a rather insulting term to use. No, they are not “twisting in the wind”. What the experts are doing is science, and science takes time. Also, some arbitrary assumptions need to be made to protect the public health (like the 6 feet distancing rule, which should probably be more).

But there are certain things that we do know, like bacteria do not fight viruses.

4) “Antibiotics kill good bacteria”. Of course antibiotics kill bacteria. That’s literally what they are designed to do. But it’s a straw man to this issue. Antibiotics have nothing to do with COVID-19 as it is a virus, not a bacteria.

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