Coronavirus Spread Drops Dramatically In Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — New data shows that coronavirus spread is dwindling throughout Minnesota, including in Minneapolis. Declining case numbers indicate the COVID-19 vaccines are blunting virus transmission.

What is your risk of exposure?

In 2020, researchers from several universities created an event risk planning tool for every county in the nation. The map shows the risk of coronavirus transmission based on an event's size and location.

This tool shows the estimated chance — between 0 and 100 percent — that you'll encounter at least one person with the coronavirus at an event in your county.

As of Tuesday, if you were to attend an event with 15 people in Hennepin County, there would be a 6 percent chance that someone at the event would have the virus, according to the COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool.

If you hang out with ten people, the chance drops to 4 percent.

Compare those numbers to November, when attending an event with 15 people in Hennepin County meant there was a 50 percent chance that someone at the event would have the virus.

Two Georgia Institute of Technology professors led the creation of the project, and their team included researchers from Stanford University and the Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory.

Use the COVID-19 "Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool" here.

COVID-19 vaccination numbers in Minnesota

As of Tuesday, 49.2 percent of all Minnesotans — or 2,721,376 residents — have received at least their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Over 42 percent of the state is fully vaccinated.

In Hennepin County, 57.7 percent of residents have received at least one shot, and 48.6 percent are fully vaccinated.