The risk assessment planning tool is designed to tell you how likely you are to encounter a coronavirus-infected person at an event.
The COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool, conceived by Joshua Weitz, a quantitative biologist, and built by a team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), offers a risk level forecast for every county in the United States. The risk level is the estimated chance (0-100%) that at least 1 COVID-19 positive individual will be present at an event in a county, given the size of the event.
The tool assumes that the actual number of coronavirus cases is up to 10 times higher than what’s in the official reports, because not all cases will be caught by tests.
The map is updated daily with the latest information on how many cases have been tallied in every county across the U.S. The COVID-19 Risk Assessment Planning Tool went live in July, and the tool’s creators reported that 2 million people had visited the site by September.
The answers to the above questions — and many more — can be found on the free and now peer-reviewed COVID-19 Risk Assessment Planning Tool.
The tool is designed to help people understand the risks associated with gatherings of different sizes. https://t.co/FmizcMJkQy
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 12, 2020
The hope is that people would use the COVID-19 Risk Assessment Planning Tool to help them make decisions about how many local friends and family to invite to their celebrations, and whether traveling to different parts of the country is worth the risk, according to Clio Andris, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Interactive Computing, at Georgia Tech.
References:
- https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-11-11/covid-19-risk-thanksgiving-2020-what-to-expect
- https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu