Overall, the decision on dining out comes down to a personal assessment of risk.
California’s winter COVID-19 surge intensified Wednesday, with new overall coronavirus cases likely tied to holiday gatherings spiking up, along with confirmed cases of the Omicron strain.Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UC San Francisco, said Wednesday if he had a compromised immune system, or was elderly and was either unvaccinated or had not received a booster shot, he would not dine in an indoor restaurant.
Dr. Paul Sax, an infectious diseases expert at Harvard Medical School, said at a recent UC San Francisco forum in Boston that he hasn’t dined inside a restaurant since the spring of 2020, and “I miss it greatly. I’m going to put that off until case numbers drop some more.” Sax said that the superspreader event inside the Oslo restaurant in November is a classic example of how rapidly the virus can be transmitted in an indoor environment, even among vaccinated people.
Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the UC San Francisco Department of Medicine, said last week on Twitter that, as a fairly healthy 64-year-old who is moderately risk-averse and has received three shots of the Pfizer vaccine, he would not dine in an indoor public setting even in San Francisco, but he would eat outdoors. He also noted that “context matters: What might be safe for a healthy 30-year-old could be way too unsafe for a frail octogenarian.” “It’s not about you alone.
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