As summarized in the Gazette, the study results confirm that Black and LatinX users, frontline health care workers, and essential workers have increased risk for infection than other groups, and that those groups also had a higher likelihood to be tested. Other findings were that household and community exposure were major factors in infection, and that the loss of taste and smell is increasingly indicated as the greatest predictor of a positive test. The study also highlighted some of the issues that have made the disease harder to contain; namely, the strong role of asymptomatic cases in disease transmission, and a lack of compliance in prevention measures including mask wearing and social distancing.
For more details, see the article and check out Lin’s Twitter thread summarizing the study.