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

AUSTIN, Texas - 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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