{"639180":{"#nid":"639180","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"College Professors Made Models Showing How Bad COVID-19 Would Be on Campus. Some Administrators Ignored Them","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAbout 70 miles away,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ecotheory.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor who studies viral dynamics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, created his own\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/presentation\/Science_and_Projections_for_a_Return_to_Campus\/12761357\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epredictive model\u003C\/a\u003E, this one with a more dire message: Without any mitigation strategies, 50% of people on Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus of about 31,500 would be infected with COVID-19 and 75 would die.Georgia Tech confirmed that Weitz\u0026rsquo;s model had been taken into consideration when it planned its COVID-19 response.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-09-16 20:26:48","changed_gmt":"2020-09-16 20:26:48","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2023 U.S. News \u0026 World Report Best Colleges","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/time.com\/5889032\/campus-coronavirus-models\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological 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":""}}}