Is it safe, at least for the time being, to slip into your local movie theater for a couple hours of escape? We asked a health expert
Photo: Alain Benainous/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images As health experts and government officials continue to encourage social distancing as a method of combating coronavirus infection, some of the “large public gatherings” to avoid have seemed obvious: sporting events, conventions, film festivals. And some have been explicitly pinpointed; in New York, governor Andrew Cuomo banned gatherings of over 500 people, effectively shutting down Broadway theaters entirely.
What About Matinees? Not everyone goes to the movie theater during peak hours; some patrons prefer the weekday matinees, when cinemas are sparsely populated to begin with. Is attending one of these screenings safer than, say, going to a busy multiplex on a Saturday night? According to the CDC, the novel coronavirus may remain viable for hours to days on surfaces made from a variety of materials. So what should you do should you come across non-plastic seats at the theater? “If you’re viral infected and you seed the cloth [of a seat] with your virus, the person who sits down [next] is going to [be exposed],” he says. “There’s no way you can decontaminate a cloth seat [with a wipe]. So that’s a bit of a problem.
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