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Even if a restaurant worker coughs or sneezes directly in your food, you won't catch coronavirus from eating the meal

There are no reported cases of someone catching coronavirus from food they ate anywhere in the world.

Experts say the coronavirus is primarily spread from person-to-person transmission, though it's still a good idea to wash your hands after handlingIf you're surviving off of delivery orders while self-isolating, you can rest easy on one issue — it seems to be effectively impossible to catch the coronavirus from food.

"Even if a worker sneezes directly into a bowl of raw salad greens before packing it in a take-out container for you to take home, as gross as it is, it's unlikely to get you sick," López-Alt reported. "The transmission is through the respiratory epithelium in your nose, mouth, and eyes. It's unlikely to be transmitted in the food, more likely on hands while holding food packaging," said Dr. Eric Cioe-Pena, an emergency physician and the director of global health for Northwell Health. MD, a Yale Medicine infectious disease specialist, there is no evidence to date of food-borne transmission of the coronavirus.

 

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