{"636210":{"#nid":"636210","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Will Protests Increase the Spread of COVID-19?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Institutional racism is a public health issue. Police brutality is a public health issue,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz,\u003C\/a\u003E a quantitative biologist at Georgia Tech, who has developed \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/weitzgroup.github.io\/MAGEmodel_covid19_GA\/\u0022\u003Ea model of COVID-19 spread in Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;COVID-19 represents an ongoing threat and we must work collectively to control new transmission, yet we cannot wait to address systemic issues related to racism,\u0026rdquo; he says. Weitz and his colleagues created an \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eonline dashboard\u003C\/a\u003E that can estimate, based on the size of an event and its location, the chance that one or more individuals at the gathering\u0026nbsp;will have the virus. Weitz\u0026nbsp;says there\u0026rsquo;s a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/online-covid-19-dashboard-calculates-how-risky-reopenings-and-gatherings-can-be\/\u0022\u003Esignificant chance\u003C\/a\u003E that one or more individuals at any kind of\u0026nbsp;medium or large event, including protests, will have the virus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2020-06-15 04:35:29","changed_gmt":"2020-06-15 04:36:02","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"\u00a0Linda Wills","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/ethics\/will-protests-increase-spread-covid19-coronavirus","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}