INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) – Inland residents are not doing a very good job of social distancing in this time of the coronavirus, at least by one measurement.

The data company Unacast, a firm that collects cell phone location data for private companies, created an interactive map that shows which counties in California and beyond are correctly "socially distancing" by staying at home.

Each county and state is graded on an A-F basis on the "change in average mobility," or the decline in distance traveled since quarantine measures were first put in place.

"To calculate the actual underlying social indexing score we combine tens of millions of anonymous mobile phones and their interactions with each other each day - and then extrapolate the results to the population level," Unacast writes in its methodology.

It gave San Bernardino County a ‘D’ and a ‘C’ to Riverside County.

Story Date: April 5, 2020