{"635610":{"#nid":"635610","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Lessons from 1918: Old Pandemic is a Murky Guide for Sports","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, asssociate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;Lessons from 1918: Old Pandemic is a Murky Guide for Sports\u0026quot; on May 21, 2020 from the Associated Press.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith, whose book\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWar Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War\u003C\/em\u003E, written with Randy Roberts of Purdue University, has become especially relevant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, spoke to how sports fans could approach the idea of large crowds at games and whether there were parallels to the 1918 influenza pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think a lot of people will hesitate to attend sporting events as spectators until there is a proven vaccine,\u0026rdquo; Georgia Tech professor of sports history Johnny Smith said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think there are parallels in what we can learn from 1918 in terms of how we respond to a pandemic,\u0026rdquo; Smith added. \u0026ldquo;The cities that were hesitant and didn\u0026rsquo;t impose closure orders as quickly had far more fatalities. I think the lesson we can draw in general from 1918 about how to respond to a pandemic is that closure orders and social distancing is effective.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/apnews.com\/d2f2ce156a64c679ce79d926bc98a207\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-05-22 22:34:39","changed_gmt":"2020-05-22 22:35:10","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"management of technology and innovation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/apnews.com\/d2f2ce156a64c679ce79d926bc98a207","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=Qh5ePnxI"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"168508","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}