{"642282":{"#nid":"642282","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Covid-19 Interventions Can Cut Virus Infections, Severe Outcomes, and Healthcare Needs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new paper authored by ISyE\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;William W. George Chair and Professor Pinar Keskinocak;\u0026nbsp;Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Professor Nicoleta Serban;\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. students Arden Baxter and\u0026nbsp;Buse Eylul Oruc;\u0026nbsp;and Metron\u0026nbsp;Research Scientist John Asplund confirms what public health experts have been asserting:\u0026nbsp;Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing data from the state of Georgia, the study determined that a combination of non-pharmaceutical interventions, with various levels of compliance that change over time, could in some instances cut cumulative infections in half and reduce the peak number of infections to about a third of what could have been seen, \u0026ldquo;flattening the peak\u0026rdquo; to avoid overwhelming a state\u0026rsquo;s healthcare system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read a complete analysis of the ISyE team\u0026#39;s findings \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/640466\/covid-19-interventions-can-cut-virus-infections-severe-outcomes-and-healthcare-needs\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a new paper, a team of ISyE researchers confirm that non-pharmaceutical interventions can help slow the spread of Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In a new paper, a team of ISyE researchers confirm that non-pharmaceutical interventions can help slow the spread of Covid-19."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-12-18 20:25:57","changed_gmt":"2020-12-28 16:59:32","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"642280":{"id":"642280","type":"image","title":"Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place\u00a0can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths.","body":null,"created":"1608321153","gmt_created":"2020-12-18 19:52:33","changed":"1608321153","gmt_changed":"2020-12-18 19:52:33","alt":"Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place\u00a0can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths.","file":{"fid":"243987","name":"Stay Home.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Stay%20Home.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Stay%20Home.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":595303,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Stay%20Home.jpg?itok=T69sdW1y"}},"636594":{"id":"636594","type":"image","title":"Social Distancing on Campus","body":null,"created":"1593459032","gmt_created":"2020-06-29 19:30:32","changed":"1593459032","gmt_changed":"2020-06-29 19:30:32","alt":"Two students walk around campus, several feet apart, with masks on.","file":{"fid":"242190","name":"20C10006-P1-020.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10006-P1-020.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20C10006-P1-020.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1113451,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/20C10006-P1-020.jpg?itok=XxcjACQR"}}},"media_ids":["642280","636594"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}