Remember the board game Risk, where the goal was basically to take over the world?
Well, let’s play Risk Covid-19, in which you try to guess which activities put people more at risk for contracting the coronavirus that causes the disease. Find answers at the end of the article.
Ready? Here we go.
What’s more risky:
- Spending an hour at a playground or grocery shopping?
- Going to a beach or going camping?
- Working a week in an office building or staying two nights in a hotel?
- Going to a hair salon/barbershop or visiting a library or museum?
- Going to a bar or sitting in a doctor’s waiting room?
By now you probably have a good idea of which activities pose a greater risk catching Covid-19, so this might have been easy.
But if you’re not sure, the Texas Medical Association Covid-19 Task Force and Committee on Infectious Diseases have created a chart that ranks activities on their risk level for Covid-19. The levels are based on input from the physician members of the task force and the committee, who worked from the assumption that – no matter the activity – participants were taking as many safety precautions as they can.
Click on the link here for a downloadable, printable version to share on your social media accounts or to display in your home office. A Spanish–language version is also available.
And no matter what activity you engage in, it’s best to stay home if possible, wear a mask and maintain at least 6 feet of distance when you have to go out, and practice safe hand hygiene (wash your hands, in other words).
Finally, if you haven’t figured it out by now, the first activity listed in every question above is more risky – some much more than others.
Source: Texas Medical Association