{"643628":{"#nid":"643628","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, comments on the difficulties in connecting human behavior and disease transmission, and how those challenges must be resolved in order to better control future pandemics. Weitz led researchers in developing the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Event Risk Assessment Tool.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-01-29 15:41:49","changed_gmt":"2021-01-29 15:42:22","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"subglacial hydrologic system","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-hard-lessons-of-modeling-the-coronavirus-pandemic-20210128\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"11599","name":"Joshua Weitz"},{"id":"186879","name":"disease modeling"}],"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":""}}}