{"632299":{"#nid":"632299","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Science Forum Spotlights Coronavirus Outbreak","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA pair of Georgia Tech scientists took a standing-room-only audience through a tour of the science behind the global coronavirus investigation, with a special focus on why global officials are concerned about the strength, speed, and size of the current outbreak.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech hosted the forum, which featured \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Philip-Santangelo\u0022\u003EPhil Santangelo\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E; and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fredhutch.org\/en\/faculty-lab-directory\/bedford-trevor.html\u0022\u003ETrevor Bedford\u003C\/a\u003E, a faculty member in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease division of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fredhutch.org\/en.html\u0022\u003EFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E in Seattle, WA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E(A link to the YouTube video of the Coronavirus Forum can be found in the Media section below.)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBedford, with experience working on previous flu and Ebola virus outbreaks, focused on the epidemiological detective work that began in early January with the release of the first novel coronavirus (nCoV) genome by Chinese health officials. 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