A free COVID-19 risk calculator has appeared on the website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), i.e. the US governmental health institution. We can check if and to what extent we are exposed to infection in various situations. The creators of the calculator took into account, among others: shopping, office work, social meetings and holidays with the family.
What is the risk of coronavirus infection during holidays?
Safer-Covid, as the calculator is called, predicts: family holidays, home parties, outdoor barbecues, religious celebrations, weddings and funerals in the «Gatherings» tab.
When we choose the option “holidays with family”, there will be more choices. For example, if we click on “Christmas”, we can select: Indoors Small, Indoors Large or Outdoors. We also choose the expected number of guests, the possibility of social distancing and the duration of the Christmas meeting. Here are the options – less than an hour, 1 – 2 hours, more than 2 hours. But that’s not all, it also includes: singing together, joint activities and exchanging gifts.
Summing up – the risk of contracting coronavirus during a meeting in a small room that lasts over 2 hours, and is attended by 5 to 9 people, who additionally do not keep social distance, because they give and receive gifts, as well as sing Christmas carols – it was estimated at 8 on a 10-point scale.
Meanwhile, an intimate meeting for no more than 4 participants, which takes place in a large house for over two hours, without respecting social distance, without singing Christmas carols, but with gifts, only got 5 points.
According to the calculator, the safest is a one-hour Christmas walk in a small group. If its participants maintain a social distance, despite the exchange of gifts – the risk is only 2.
You can use the calculator HERE
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