NATIONWIDE — With the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, a group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Stanford University have developed a new COVID-19 Risk Assessment Planning Tool.


What You Need To Know

  • Researchers develop COVID-19 Risk Assessment Planning Tool

  • Map includes data for every county across the U.S.

  • Map accounts for event size, risk level in county

It helps you assess your risk of COVID-19, no matter where you travel, in real-time.

Courtesy: Georgia Tech University

Here's how the map works. Users input the event size and use the map to search their risk by county. The map includes data for every county in the United States.

The interactive tool breaks down the risk level of at least one person with COVID-19 being at an event, and the crowd size ranges from 10 people to 5,000. The bigger the crowd, the bigger the risk.

For example, here’s how likely it is that there will be at least one COVID-19-positive person at gatherings of various sizes in Kentucky:

  • 10 people in Lexington (Fayette County): 25%
  • 25 people in Bowling Green (Warren County): 42%
  • 50 people in Louisville (Jefferson County): 71%
  • 100 people in Florence (Boone County): 88%

If you do plan to travel, check out the CDC and TSA guidelines for safe Thanksgiving travel during a pandemic.