International science:
‘Restaurants & pubs are highest risk for indoor super-spread, as virus builds up quickly in air & nobody wears masks’
Ireland:
‘Restaurants & pubs to be ‘key battleground’ in lockdown exit talks’
Is #Covid19 in these talks? https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/covid-crisis-restaurants-and-pubs-to-be-key-battleground-in-lockdown-exit-talks-1.4415109
‘Restaurants & pubs are highest risk for indoor super-spread, as virus builds up quickly in air & nobody wears masks’
Ireland:
‘Restaurants & pubs to be ‘key battleground’ in lockdown exit talks’
Is #Covid19 in these talks? https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/covid-crisis-restaurants-and-pubs-to-be-key-battleground-in-lockdown-exit-talks-1.4415109
Cork: ‘57 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were linked to a cáfe-restaurant where people from different households socialised’ #superspread https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Covid-19-cluster-57-confirmed-cases-in-Cork-linked-to-a-cafe-restaurant-b20f147a-c695-4df1-ac72-913117e4cdd8-ds
South Korea: ‘one infected person attended five nightclubs, caused 50+ new infections’
Hong Kong: ‘106 cases linked back to exposures from staff & musicians at bars.. 73 of the people in this cluster caught virus at the bars, 39 were customers https://www.vox.com/21296067/coronavirus-covid-white-house-superspreaders-superspreading-contagious-bars-restaurants
Hong Kong: ‘106 cases linked back to exposures from staff & musicians at bars.. 73 of the people in this cluster caught virus at the bars, 39 were customers https://www.vox.com/21296067/coronavirus-covid-white-house-superspreaders-superspreading-contagious-bars-restaurants
USA: ‘researchers identified indoor public places as most responsible for the spread’ (restaurants, gyms, cafes, hotels, & houses of worship)
‘10% of the places people visited accounted for 85% of the predicted infections’ https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/restaurants-gyms-were-spring-superspreader-sites-occupancy-limits-could-control-spread/
‘10% of the places people visited accounted for 85% of the predicted infections’ https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/restaurants-gyms-were-spring-superspreader-sites-occupancy-limits-could-control-spread/
‘Public health experts, including Dr. Fauci, say evidence is abundantly clear: When bars open, infections tend to follow’
‘If you were to create a petri dish and say, how can we spread this most? It would be cruise ships, jails, factories, & bars’ https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/08/18/902328016/how-bars-are-fueling-covid-19-outbreaks
‘If you were to create a petri dish and say, how can we spread this most? It would be cruise ships, jails, factories, & bars’ https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/08/18/902328016/how-bars-are-fueling-covid-19-outbreaks
‘bars & restaurants account for an important number of contagions. What’s more, they are the most explosive: each outbreak in a nightclub infects an average of 27 people, compared to only 6 in family gatherings’ https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html
Germany: ‘woman could face up to 10 years in prison after allegedly spreading coronavirus during a bar crawl. The 26-year-old woman faces accusations that she infected 59 people after visiting multiple bars & pubs’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-woman-coronavirus-germany-bar-crawl-superspreader-b472632.html
USA: ‘144 patrons who visited [this bar] from June 12 to June 20 tested positive for COVID-19... Another 44 people caught the virus from those patrons later on’ https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/anatomy-super-spreader-harpers-outbreak-caution-college-bars
UK: ‘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’ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/pubs-and-restaurants-take-blame-for-uk-s-covid-spike-1.4376672
‘eating out was the most commonly reported activity in the 2-7 days prior to symptom onset’ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/pubs-and-restaurants-take-blame-for-uk-s-covid-spike-1.4376672
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 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-coronavirus-superspreader-how-crossroads-hotel-customer-in-sydney-infected-34-people-in-one-night/7ZI6HNCFBG5S55OPD3TJXWO36U/
From August:
‘Revealed: the international evidence NPHET relied on to keep pubs closed’ @Jennifer_Bray https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/revealed-the-international-evidence-nphet-relied-on-to-keep-pubs-closed-1.4324174
‘Revealed: the international evidence NPHET relied on to keep pubs closed’ @Jennifer_Bray https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/revealed-the-international-evidence-nphet-relied-on-to-keep-pubs-closed-1.4324174
in longer term pubs /restaurants can engineer safe indoor air (ventilation, filtration, CO2 monitors) but in current high community transmission & seasonal conditions it’s not advisable/achievable; short-term we need very well-managed venues for outdoors socialising in masks IMO
outdoors is 1/20th risk of indoors.. & every age group needs spacious, very well ventilated, very well managed social venues out of the rain..so let’s get inventive in outdoor markets & dining, high-ceilinged sport halls & churches, open-sided car parks, retail sheds, (& jumpers)
some more design ideas https://twitter.com/orla_hegarty/status/1305843872581537796