A new tool developed by Georgia Tech allows people to look up their risk of encountering COVID-19 at an 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 Polk County, there is a 96% chance that someone will be COVID-19 positive at a 100-person event, according to the tool.
That risk goes down to 28% at an event with only 10 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.
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).
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