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Hi. Yeah. The experts told us not to travel over Thanksgiving, even telling college students specifically stay put. Don't go see Mom and Dad this year. A lot of them went anyway. It turns out now you're about to see their movements for the first time in real time. The potential spread in real time. Let's call it the heat map. This is Penn State right over here that state College, Pennsylvania. You see all that orange. Each orange dot on this map is a student's cell phone signal. Ah, company called tectonics pulls all this data together. They say it's anonymous. They don't know the kids names on Lee tracking their locations. So you see all that orange in State College, Pennsylvania. All it up. That's someone's cell phone at Penn State. We're looking here the days before Thanksgiving, and you can see there on campus. They're all hanging out, going to school, doing their thing, and then boom, watch what happens. Look at that. Look at the map. Light up. We have toe widen out the map because they're traveling home for the holidays, and we're not just talking about Pennsylvania. We're not just even talking about the Midwest. They crawl all the way west out to California. Look at that! And Washington State down to Florida, down to Texas, down toe, Alabama. They're going everywhere. And this is how the virus spreads this right here, walking around airports, stopping at restaurants, shopping at stores, seeing their families up close. The company did this with other universities to like Ohio State, Texas A and M, University of Florida and Arizona State. And you can see this map lighting up everywhere in the country. Look at all that spread. Look at that. This is from Thanksgiving, All those orange dots heading away from their campus coming home. And then we followed them, going back to campus again. Maybe they brought the virus back to school with them. Maybe they brought it from school to your house. Maybe they picked it up somewhere else and gave it to a stranger. I want to bring in Dr Amos Adalja with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Dr. Adalja, you're watching this heat map light up with the rest of us. What do you make of this? And what's the risk of spread here? Well, the heat map is very impressive. and it really just shows you how connected of a society we live in and that there are certain activities like big universities that really disperse students and the germs that they carry all over the country. And I do think this is the risk that we've been warning about as students come back from from college for Thanksgiving that there is going to be some risk that they start change the transmission in their hometown that are going to be widespread and very hard. Thio take take control of and you really have to think of college students is high risk contacts. When would we see the effects of this? You know how people work right when there is an action. People on Lee really understand things. When there is a direct result. The next day they did this. This happened. That's not how this virus works. I know the hospitalization numbers Lego week or two behind these big events. People get infected than a week or two later. They're in the hospital. Ah, week or so later, the death rate spikes. So when can we expect to see the spike from what happened over Thanksgiving? We should start to see an increase in cases maybe by the end of this week as people start to get into their incubation period. But hospitalizations are going to take probably another week or so before we start seeing an uptick and it maybe even a little bit longer because these air younger people that might have gotten infected and they then have to infect a vulnerable person who has to get sick enough to go into the hospital. So I do think in probably mid December, we should be seeing kind of the full effect of what happened at Thanksgiving. Hopefully, it's something manageable. But a lot of us think that this is going toe on. Lee, be on Lee, be kind of a capacity crunch when we're already capacity crunch in many hospitals. All right, so if you're one of these people that did travel, what should you be doing right now? Should you be quarantining? Should you be getting a test? What should you be doing? If you are somebody that was at a Thanksgiving dinner where you didn't see social distancing occurring, you should consider yourself likely to be exposed and probably about 5 to 7 days after that you can try and get a test and see if that helps you. But in the meantime, you should be really delimiting your contacts as best as you can. Some people will be quarantining. Others may have to do certain certain activities. But you should in general be mindful of the fact that you might be harboring this virus and could infect somebody else. Dr. Adalja, thank you so much for you at home. If you want to see this map again to Seymour schools, See the spread Slow motion right where you live. You could go to my website right now. Rossen reports dot com back to you.