This New Interactive Map Shows You How Dangerous Going Out In Florida Is Right Now

You can see likely you are to encounter someone with COVID-19.
This New Interactive Map Shows You How Dangerous Going Out In Florida Is Right Now
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A new COVID-19 map allows you to see how risky it is to attend an event in your county before you head out.

Georgia Tech professors unveiled an interactive dashboard that allows individuals to look up their risk of engaging someone with COVID-19 at an event.

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These risk calculations provide further support for the ongoing need for social distancing.


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Those utilizing the map can set the excepted event size, which ranges from 10 to 10,000 people and see the level of incidence of encountering a COVID-19 positive individual.

The researchers pull the data from the COVID Tracking Project from The Atlantic.

The map allows people from around the country to see how their state measures up compared to others. 

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