Thread by @Orla_Hegarty

[Thread] #Covid19 Indoor dining super-spread

‘Eleven of the 37 patrons who dined at the Smile Buffalo Thai restaurant on the night of December 21 tested positive to the virus, after visiting between 7pm & 9.30pm’ 1/
theage.com.au/national/victo…

‘virus can spread more than three times the six-foot (2m) range in just five minutes

Two diners were infected with Covid-19 from a third, asymptomatic diner who sat 21 feet (6.4m) away’ 2/ forbes.com/sites/suzanner…

‘one restaurant in Cork was the starting point of a cluster that has caused 57 Covid cases so far’

‘We have to cut down the size of these clusters, we have to cut down socialisation if we are going to get on top of this disease’ - @ronan_glynn (1 Oct) 3/
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4005…

Restaurant in China where ‘9 people sitting as far away as five meters were infected by one person’ 4/ healthpolicy-watch.news/poor-ventilati…

Hong Kong bar ‘106 Covid-19 cases, linked back to exposures from staff & musicians at a series of bars. 73 of the people in this cluster caught the virus at the bars (including 39 who were customers), who then spread it to others in the community’ 5/
vox.com/21296067/coron…

In Germany ‘woman faces accusations that she infected 59 people thus far after visiting multiple bars & pubs, even though she was displaying symptoms related to Covid-19’ 6/
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

‘144 patrons who visited bar from June 12 to June 20 tested positive for COVID-19... Another 44 people caught the virus from those patrons later on’ 7/
bridgemi.com/michigan-gover…

In Australia ‘man who doesn't know he's infected with coronavirus walks into a bar on July 3 with "about six" workmates’.. & 13 days later this had lead to 34 Covid-19 infections 8/ nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19…

‘Health authorities across the UK believe the normalisation of eating out & drinking in pubs has contributed to the UK’s second wave of Covid-19’

‘eating out was the most commonly reported activity in the 2-7 days prior to symptom onset’ 9/
irishtimes.com/business/retai…

In Florida, ‘a group of 16 friends went to a pub to celebrate a birthday & within days all 16 tested positive for Covid-19’ 10/
irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…

‘club in the Córdoba, Span where 73 people tested positive after a night out

‘they are most explosive: each outbreak in a nightclub infects an average of 27 people, compared to only six during family gatherings’ /11 english.elpais.com/society/2020-1…

patients ‘without known close contact (with a person with confirmed COVID-19), were three to four times more likely to report dining at a restaurant or going to a bar or coffee shop than were control-participants’ 12/ cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…

‘A woman spread COVID to 27 customers at a Starbucks

Its mask-wearing employees escaped infection’ /13 fortune.com/2020/08/25/cov…

‘Reopening full-service restaurants was particularly risky,” the authors wrote. “In the Chicago metro area, we predicted an additional 596k infections by the end of May, more than triple the next riskiest … category.” /14
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Dr. Fauci: ‘drinking inside bars is one of the most dangerous things you can do right now’ /15
businessinsider.com/fauci-slams-pe…

...there are few pub & restaurant outbreaks reported in Ireland as it is not policy to look for them, according to NPHET @President_MU /16 threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306908…

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