New York City and New Jersey have delayed indoor dining. Why? - It's harder to spread out - There's less ventilation - People don't wear masks
Restaurants in New Jersey were set to reopen for indoor dining on Thursday, but on Monday Gov. Phil Murphy said that it won’t happen. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo however only halted indoor dining in New York City, which was set to reopen next week, and not across the state.
“Outdoor dining has worked very well all across the state, New York City included,” Cuomo said in a prior briefing held on Monday. That said, “there have been no major outbreaks related to indoor dining,” a New York Department of Health spokesman told MarketWatch. — Ryan Malosh, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health So what makes indoor dining riskier?
On top of that, air filtration is generally better outdoors than indoors because particles have more room to be dispersed, Malosh said. “Outdoors, a light breeze can disperse particles with no constraint on the distance they can then travel.” — Thomas Russo, chief of the division of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo In fact, over 140 clients who visited a hair salon based in Springfield-Greene County, Mo. where two stylists tested positive for coronavirus did not contract the virus themselves. The county’s Director of Health, Clay Goddard, cited the “value of masking” as the reason 140 clients and six other employees at the salon did not contract coronavirus.
Even though malls and movie theaters in some states’ reopening plans are allowed to reopen after restaurants can reopen for indoor dining, Russo said indoor dining poses greater risks.“Whenever there’s a scenario where everyone can wear masks at all times the risk is lower,” Russo said. “When eating you physically can’t wear a mask but you can minimize that risk by popping it back on between bites.
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