CDC says COVID-19 positive cases twice as likely to have visited a restaurant | TheHill - The Hill

"Adults with positive SARS-CoV-2 test results were approximately twice as likely to have reported dining at a restaurant than were those with negative SARS-CoV-2 test results," according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). .

From this sample, researchers whittled the group down to 314 symptomatic patients, composed of 154 patients with positive COVID-19 results, and 160 patients with negative results?

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The results indicated that case study participants––people with positive COVID-19 test results––were more likely to have dined out at a restaurant within the two weeks before illness symptoms onset than their counterparts in the control group.

The authors also write that while a majority of case patients reported using a mask prior to the onset of symptoms, the acts of eating and drinking in a public and closed setting are enough to contract the coronavirus.

Additionally, researchers noted that a plurality of 42 percent of patients with COVID-19 reported coming into close contact with another COVID-19 patient, as opposed to 14 percent in the control group

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