The Georgia Institute of Technology has released a map that helps determine the risk of at least one person at Thanksgiving testing positive for COVID-19.
The COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool was created to help people get a visual look at the risks of traveling outside of your bubble during the holiday season.
According to the website, 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.
If you choose to attend a Thanksgiving dinner in L.A. with 10 people your risk level is 42 percent that one person has tested positive for the virus. If you increase the number of people at the dinner, your risk increases.
"Right now, a lot of us are trying to make some decisions about what we will be doing this holiday season," Mallory Harris, a Ph.D. student at Stanford who helped develop the new heat map with Georgia Tech, tells WBIR.
"Our hope is that we can turn these raw case counts that are really kind of non-intuitive to look at and turn it into something that is more familiar to people," Harris said.
The map shows that the risk level in San Bernardino is 59 percent. In San Diego it’s 37 percent, in Lassen, California it’s a whopping 91 percent, and in Fremont, Wyoming, the risk is a terrifying 99 percent.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends that Americans celebrate with people in your own household, while wearing a mask, or outside to reduce the rise of transmitting the virus.