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Data tracking company Unacast has given Ellis County a "B" grade in social distancing.
The rating is based upon distance people are traveling now compared to travel before the outbreak.
According to the data, Ellis County residents have decreased travel by 33 percent.
Kansas also received a "B" grade with travel decreasing by 32 percent.
Rush and Rooks Counties also received "B" grades, at 37 and 31 percent, respectively.
Trego County was slightly lower with a "C" at 21 percent.
Russell County received the lowest grade of the counties that neighbor Ellis with a "D" and only 17 percent less travel.
"While much is still unknown about COVID-19, it’s clear social distancing is widely agreed to be an effective way of slowing the spread, and a containment strategy advised by both the World Health Organization and the CDC.," the company said on its resource page. "We have seen this work well in China, where the outbreak originated, and also in places like Singapore and South Korea."
The ratings are part of a larger tool kit released by the company.
"The first toolkit element, live today, is a new Social Distancing Scoreboard, which we are making available to help raise awareness of and reinforce the importance of social distancing," the company said. "We also believe it will not only help make sense of what’s happening now, but unearth trends that will help project scenarios in the short- and mid-term future."
The full data set can be found on the company's website, unacast.com.