The answers to these questions — and many more — can be found on the free, intuitive, and now peer-reviewed COVID-19 Risk Assessment Planning Tool. AdvertisementThe COVID-19 Risk Assessment Planning Tool was conceived in March by Joshua Weitz , a quantitative biologist at Georgia Tech who wanted an easy way to quantify the risk of attending events of various sizes in different locations. The COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool allows users to adjust the size of an event to get a better estimate of the risk involved. AdvertisementThe COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool went live in July, and the creators reported that 2 million people had come to the site by September. AdvertisementAs we move into the holiday season, Andris said she hoped more people would use the COVID-19 Risk Assessment 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 — or even within the same state — is worth the risk.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 11, 2020 15:02 UTC