YUM - Study shows restaurants are riskiest for COVID-19 infections explains why poor people are at greater risk

A study published yesterday in Nature found that the biggest causes of transmission of Coronavirus are crowded indoor spaces, in particular restaurants. Restaurants are 4x more dangerous than gyms and coffee shops.The researchers used anonymized smartphone data to track the movements of 98 million people in 10 U.S. metro areas from March to May, the first wave of the virus, and superimposed the data on Covid-19 case numbers to model the virus's transmission.However, the report states that while U.S. data suggests that crowded restaurants are most dangerous, that conclusion is not supported by contact tracing data from Germany, where restaurants were not found to be the primary source of infection. "That might be because it can be difficult to identify the source of an infection using contact-tracing data."The study also suggests why people from poorer neighborhoods are more likely to get COVID-19: they are less able to work from home,

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Study shows restaurants are riskiest for COVID-19 infections, explains why poor people are at greater risk