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I know there was a restaurant thread earlier, but for those who like actual data, this might be a worthwhile read. Eating at restaurants is one of our favorite pastimes, but this will probably keep us away for quite a while. One or two states are reportedly going to allow restaurants to reopen?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/health/airflow-coronavirus-restaurants.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/health/airflow-coronavirus-restaurants.html
In January, at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, one diner infected with the novel coronavirus but not yet feeling sick appeared to have spread the disease to nine other people. One of the restaurant’s air-conditioners apparently blew the virus particles around the dining room.There were 73 other diners who ate that day on the same floor of the five-story restaurant, and the good news is they did not become sick. Neither did the eight employees who were working on the floor at the time.
That outbreak illustrates some of the challenges that restaurants will face when they try to reopen. Ventilation systems can create complex patterns of airflow and keep viruses aloft, so simply spacing tables six feet apart — the minimum distance that the C.D.C. advises you keep from other people — may not be sufficient to safeguard restaurant patrons.