Restaurant Dining Linked To COVID-19 According to CDC Study

A CDC study suggests that adults with COVID-19 are twice as likely to say they have dined in a restaurant in the 14 days before becoming ill than those who tested negative, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The researcher wrote the following:

"In addition to dining at a restaurant, case-patients were more likely to report going to a bar/coffee shop, but only when the analysis was restricted to participants without close contact with persons with known COVID-19 before illness onset..

In July data was gathered from a study of 314 adults who were tested for COVID-19 after experiencing symptoms. Of those studied, 154 tested positive and 160 tested negative.Tests were administered at 11 different health care facilities across 10 US states: California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah and Washington.

CDC researchers took a close look at the answers given by those patients  to questions regarding wearing masks and various activities in the community, including whether they recently dined at a restaurant, hung out a bar or went to a gym, for instance.