TYLER, Texas — A new tool developed by Georgia Tech allows people to look up their risk of encountering COVID-19 at event, based on the county they live in.
The interactive map allows users to choose a county anywhere in the United States, choose the event size (anywhere from 10 people to 10,000), and then calculate the risk that at least one COVID-19 positive person will be present.
For example, in Smith County, the tool calculates that at a 100-person event, there is an 97% chance that someone in attendance will be COVID-positive. At a gathering with only 10 people, that risk goes down to 30%.
In Gregg County, the risk level is 98% at a gathering with 100 people in attendance (31% for a gathering with 10 people). Alternatively, the risk is less than 1% in Rusk County with a gathering of 100 people.
The interactive map is based on data from The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, which pulls daily data on COVID-19 testing and patients from all 50 states. It's also based on 2019 U.S. Census data.
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The risk assessment tool was developed by researchers at Georgia Tech's Institute of Technology, Biological Sciences (GT-BIOS) and the Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory (ABiL).
Click here to see the risk in your county.
