If you'll be at the dinner table with people you don't live with this week, research from the University of Idaho can help you gauge how likely you are to bump into someone who has COVID-19.
In Bonneville County, for instance, 1 in 16 people are likely actively transmitting coronavirus, according to estimates Monday morning. In Madison County, that's about 1 in 10.
Exposure risk is incredibly high, according to health officials, hospital administrators and experts who are pleading with people to practice safety precautions such as masking and distancing if they choose to gather with extended family and friends during Thanksgiving. Last week, the Idaho Falls Fire Chief said the region's largest EMS system was on "razor's edge."
"We're trying to express things in ways that might relate to people a bit more," project director Benjamin Ridenhour, a U of I mathematics professor, said of his team's map.