In the end, roughly three thousand of the 4,087 official residents showed up to be tested over four days in late April 2020. A bit more than 6 percent of the Latino residents turned out to be infected by COVID, most with high loads of the virus, though many had no symptoms. There were patterns in the test results—for example, the richer the person, the less likely he was to be infected. Latinos were only 44 percent of the study but 95 percent of the positives. Of the 981 white people tested, zero were positive. The big takeaways seemed to be what everyone was just then figuring out: the virus
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