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Several major outbreaks and outbreaks have been linked to major events or parties during the pandemic. Many countries around the world have also imposed strict restrictions to limit the number of people who are allowed to gather in one place.
In Sweden, and in many other countries, discussions about how many people should be able to attend public meetings have heated up. In early March, the government introduced a ban on meetings with more than 500 participants, that number dropped to 50 a few weeks later and has now dropped to eight. But what is the risk of someone in a group of a certain size having COVID-19 right now?
American researchers have produced a map that shows just that. It is Joshua S. Weitz and his research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology who want people to more easily understand what risk is like in their country or region. The results, which describe their work, have been published in the scientific journal Nature human behavior.
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