Indoor Dining and the Spread of Coronavirus

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 15, 2020

This week, Gov. Cuomo ordered indoor dining to shut down in New York City and a new study in South Korea suggests that coronavirus spreads much faster and farther inside restaurants than previously thought. Don Milton, MD, professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, explains.

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