A recent survey found that 40% of Americans plan to attend a Thanksgiving gathering with 10 or more people. Here are the odds of encountering a Covid-positive person at one of those gatherings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/map-covid-risk-thanksgiving/
Caveat: These numbers will only look worse on Thanksgiving day given the uncontrolled spread everywhere. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/map-covid-risk-thanksgiving/
Analysis | Map: The coronavirus risk for a big Thanksgiving dinner in your community

With the virus spreading unchecked across much of the country, Thanksgiving gatherings could lead to Christmas funerals.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/map-covid-risk-thanksgiving/
Data comes from @joshuasweitz's COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool, which was recently peer-reviewed in Nature.

Tool here: https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/ 
Nature article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01000-9
Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment

The COVID-19 Real-Time Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool allows individuals to assess risk associated with attending events of different sizes via a real-time, interactive website and helps...

https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/
An illustration of how rapidly these numbers are deteriorating: On Monday, when I pulled the data for the story, my county's 10-person event risk was 63 percent. In today's update, that number is up to 70 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/map-covid-risk-thanksgiving/
Analysis | Map: The coronavirus risk for a big Thanksgiving dinner in your community

With the virus spreading unchecked across much of the country, Thanksgiving gatherings could lead to Christmas funerals.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/map-covid-risk-thanksgiving/
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