Thousands of Orthodox Jews participated in a COVID-19 study last year. The first results are in. March 10, 2021 5:48 pm People congregate outside of Congregation Yetev Lev D Satmar in Brooklyn, where state officials halted a planned 10,000-person wedding in October 2020. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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(JTA) One year after COVID-19 first walloped Jewish communities in the United States, a scientific study has confirmed something that many in the communities have long believed: gatherings during the week of Purim served as superspreader events.
A paper published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open, a peer-review journal that is open to the public, concludes that the coronavirus was spreading widely in Orthodox communities across the country last spring around that Jewish holiday before public health warnings were given about the dangers of large assemblies.
Our Orthodox communities got COVID-19 early We led a study to turn tragedy into science
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Thousands of Orthodox Jews participated in a COVID-19 study last year The first results are in now
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