Exactly how risky is the grocery in the age of COVID? The beach? Opening your mail? Wonder no more.

(Graphic courtesy Texas Medical Association)

By STHS Communication Department

We’ve all been there: After self-isolating and socially distancing for the better part of five months, you’ve just got an itch to feel a little sunshine on your face.

The question is: With community spread of COVID-19 still prevalent, exactly how risky is it to play a round of golf? Or go to the beach? Go camping? Attend a backyard barbecue?

Furthermore, what about going to the library? The movies? Or even putting gas in your car, for that matter?

Wonder no more. The Texas Medical Association recently pulled together some of its brightest minds to help formulate a list assigning COVID risk scores to 37 common activities on a scale from one (the lowest risk) to 10 (the highest). They then turned that data into a risk assessment infographic. Find it below.

It should be noted that, for the purposes of the ranking, the TMA experts assumed that participants in all of the listed activities would be following currently recommended safety protocols when possible – which means proper social distancing, mask-wearing in public, good hand hygiene and all the other COVID precautions health experts preach.