The National Restaurant Association (NRA) recently released a statement describing a Stanford University study that cited restaurants as potential “superspreader” sites for COVID-19 as deeply flawed.

In the study, researchers tracked the movements of 98 million Americans in 10 of the country’s largest cities to create predictive modeling of infection risk based on where people went, how long they stayed and how crowded those places were. Using modeling, rather than actual contact tracing, is not definitive enough to point the finger at restaurants as a major source of coronavirus spread, the National Restaurant Association (NRA) said in its statement. Visit ...