Many rest restaurants have turned to rent out tents as an outdoor dining option as coronavirus epidemics have forced them to stop offering indoor dining. But is it safe?
The safest option is to eat at home. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested in COVID-1 for found that people who tested positive had almost twice as many negative tests as having eaten at a restaurant in the two weeks before they became ill. .
“Masks cannot be worn effectively while eating and drinking,” the researchers wrote.
For diners, the CDC recommends wearing as many masks as possible when entering and leaving the restaurant, social distance, and hand washing.
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And the least risky option for rest restaurant rents is to limit food service to drive-through, delivery, takeout and curbside pick-up, according to the CDC.
CDC Covid-1 rates low-capacity outdoor seating for social distances as a “high risk” spread, and rates indoor dining with a six-foot distance between tables or outdoor dining as “high risk”. Indoor dining without distances numbered as “highest risk”.
For diners, the CDC recommends wearing as many masks as possible when entering and leaving the restaurant, social distance, and hand washing.
If the tent is properly ventilated, it can be safer than indoor dining. The Wall Street Journal reports that tents need to have air flow so that COVID-19-carrying drops do not rise inside. And that doesn’t just mean Windows. Lisa Brosso, respiratory defense and infectious disease export, told the journal that the device needs to be moved into the air inside and outside the space.
Even for individual tents, airflow is important. (Reuters / Jinnah Moon)
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Single-table tents, such as igloos or bubbles, can also help reduce the risk of transmission if used properly. Brosso told the journal he could protect the meal from others sitting nearby.
Craig Hedberg, a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, told the Associated Press that individual tents should not be shared by people who do not live together.
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Airflow is also important for individual tents. In Health Gust, a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant in San Francisco had to remove about half of its plastic covering from its geodesic domes after local quantity officials objected to the lack of air flow.
Bri Gorden, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, told the AP that there should be 20 minutes left between the parties to clear the tent.
