Why is it “safe” to eat takeout food?

From what I understand (which isn't much), transmission of COVID via touch surfaces is extremely low. So if you remove the food from the containers it comes in and transfer it to your own plates you should be safe. When the CDC was doing contract tracing at the height of the pandemic there hadn't been any reported cases of transmission via food contamination either. So someone preparing the food with the disease and getting the consumer sick hadn't happened either. In the last couple of months I haven't been reading any of the latest data though.

We haven't had any takeout or delivery since March but when I do I would only order something like pizza that's cooked at a reasonably high temperature and transferred directly from the oven to the delivery box. Or something baked like cookies that doesn't need to be consumed right away and can sit around for a day or two. The thought of having food like sushi right now makes me queasy, to be honest, as much as we used to have it delivered before all this started.

OP - Same here. But I must say, it is so much healthier to prepare our own food. Most restaurant food is loaded with salt and low quality ingredients.

Thanks for the replies. My husband and I are getting tired of home cooked meals, maybe we’ll get a pizza or something this weekend. I’m certainly not going to eat at a restaurant yet.

In & Out Fat or Fur burger... hold the pickle.

I've eaten takeout or in a restaurant (when available) since March. I am not sick, and I have not tested positive (as of a month ago). I'm not a parishioner of St. Lysolina, however.

OP I got takeout food in NYC even during the worst part of the pandemic (March and April). I was just really careful about taking the food out of the containers and putting it all on plates and then throwing out the containers and washing my hands a bunch of times. I developed a whole system. It’s not transmitted through food. Get a pizza! You’ll be fine!

What r7 said. My system: Open the containers, wash your hands, transfer the food to a plate, trash the containers, wash your hands again. Enjoy!