States In Red Zones > Just Stay Home

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Americans from 26 states — more than half of the country — should not be traveling right now, according to the Harvard Global Health Institute’s risk-assessment map.
The color-coded map is a tool for assessing the risk of spreading COVID-19.
Each state has a rating of green, yellow, orange or red, based upon the number of new daily positive cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people over a seven-day rolling average.
States colored red or orange are over the threshold for allowing non-essential travel, according to Harvard’s researchers.
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Travel Alert: Americans From 26 States Should Stay Home, Per Harvard’s COVID-19 Tracking Site

Suzanne Rowan Kelleher Senior Contributor

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These red-colored states are “at a tipping point” and should be under stay-at-home orders, according to the Harvard researchers.

Four months into the pandemic, there are no green states on the map. That means no state is “on track for containment of COVID-19,” as defined by Harvard. Two states come close though; Vermont and Maine both have a positivity rate of just 1.2%

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