Sharing food is an important element of Thanksgiving for millions of families around the country. While the coronavirus pandemic means the holiday will look different, it’s still possible to share dishes with loved ones.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cooking or preparing food and delivering it to someone is a very low-risk activity. Make it as safe as possible by using a contactless method to drop off the food: Leaving it on their front porch or outside their apartment door is a great way to ensure that the food gets to them without exposing either party to coronavirus.
Dr. Dean Winslow, an infectious disease doctor and professor of medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, said that most food delivery, including takeout, is “absolutely safe.”
“You don’t have to worry about sanitizing the outside of the packages or anything like that,”
