Medical group releases chart ranking activities based on COVID-19 risk

A group of medical experts and leaders have assigned coronavirus risk levels to various activities.

The Texas Medical Association told FOX 35 that a task force of about 14 physicians who are experts and leaders in medicine have determined the risk level of various activities, ranked from 1 through 10. Download the here (PDF).

The task force broke down the following activities into the following groups:

LOW-RISK ACTIVITIES (1-2):

  • Opening the mail
  • Getting restaurant takeout
  • Pumping gasoline
  • Playing tennis
  • Going camping

LOW-MODERATE RISK (3-4):

  • Grocery shopping
  • Going for walk, run, or bike ride with others
  • Playing golf
  • Staying at a hotel for two nights
  • Sitting in a doctor's waiting room
  • Going to a library or museum
  • Eating in a restaurant (outside)
  • Walking in a busy downtown
  • Spending an hour at a playground 

MODERATE RISK (5-6):

  • Having dinner at someone else's house
  • Attending a backyard barbecue
  • Going to a beach
  • Shopping at a mall
  • Sending kids to school, camp, or daycare
  • Working a week in an office building
  • Swimming in a public pool
  • Visiting an elderly relative or friend in their homem

MODERATE-HIGH (7):

  • Going to a hair salon or barbershop
  • Eating in a restaurant (inside)
  • Attending a wedding or funeral
  • Traveling by plane
  • Playing basketball
  • Playing football
  • Hugging or shaking hands when greeting a friend

HIGH-RISK (8-9):

  • Eating at a buffet
  • Working out at a gym
  • Going to an amusement park
  • Going to a movie theater 
  • Attending a large music concert
  • Going to a sports stadium
  • Attending a religious service with 500+ worshippers 
  • Going to a bar

Phase two of Florida's reopening is ongoing. The following is in effect:

  • Restaurants can now allow bar-top seating with appropriate social distancing.
  • Retail stores can now operate at full capacity with responsible social distancing and sanitization protocols.
  • Gyms can now operate at full capacity as well with appropriate social distancing and frequent sanitization. 
  • Entertainment businesses, like movie theaters, concert houses, auditoriums, playhouses, bowling alleys and arcades, can operate at 50 percent with appropriate social distancing and sanitization protocols. 
  • Personal services businesses, including but not limited to tattoo parlors, acupuncture establishments, tanning salons, and massage establishments, may operate with guidance from the Florida Department of Health.
  • Pari-mutuel betting facilities can submit a request to reopen to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The request must include an endorsement from their county mayor or county administrator if there is no mayor.

Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach -- which are the counties that got hit the heaviest by coronavirus in Florida -- will remain in phase one for the time being. When ready, they can seek approval from their county mayor or county administrator to enter phase two.

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