{"623635":{"#nid":"623635","#data":{"type":"news","title":"External News - Howie Weiss in the Guardian for Airplane Airborne Disease Modeling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/shortcuts\/2019\/jul\/16\/cleaned-for-take-off-naomi-campbell-inflight-hygiene-routine\u0022\u003EGuardian News Story\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, though, where you are sat on a flight can dictate what lurgies you end up with.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~weiss\/\u0022 title=\u0022\u0022\u003EHoward Weiss\u003C\/a\u003E, a biomathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology, modelled behaviour on flights and calculated the risks of becoming ill with airborne diseases. \u0026ldquo;Direct transmission of diseases such as flu is very unlikely beyond passengers seated about a metre away from the infected passenger,\u0026rdquo; says Weiss. \u0026ldquo;For flu, I think the worst case was overall there would be two additional infections in the entire economy cabin.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeiss and his team also took swabs from planes. \u0026ldquo;What we found was the bacteria that you find in an airplane looks a lot like in your home or office. If you are not immune-compromised, then as long as you keep your hands away from your face, you\u0026rsquo;re probably going to be fine. People have this impression that airplanes are like sewers, but we\u0026rsquo;ve shown that\u0026rsquo;s not the case.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Howie Weiss was in the news for his work modeling airborne infectious disease risks on airplanes."}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2019-07-23 14:57:20","changed_gmt":"2019-07-23 15:16:54","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"610415":{"id":"610415","type":"image","title":"Howie Weiss","body":null,"created":"1535396633","gmt_created":"2018-08-27 19:03:53","changed":"1535396633","gmt_changed":"2018-08-27 19:03:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"232441","name":"Howie Weiss.math_.400xX_scale.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Howie%20Weiss.math_.400xX_scale.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Howie%20Weiss.math_.400xX_scale.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":23860,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Howie%20Weiss.math_.400xX_scale.jpg?itok=R3kN1aFq"}}},"media_ids":["610415"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/shortcuts\/2019\/jul\/16\/cleaned-for-take-off-naomi-campbell-inflight-hygiene-routine","title":"Guardian News Article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:comm@math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESal Barone\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}