{"647803":{"#nid":"647803","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Opinion: Mandate vaccines for Georgia students and staff on public campuses","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this guest column, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Patton Distinguished Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences,\u0026nbsp;urges the Board of Regents to safeguard the state\u0026rsquo;s public campuses and universities by requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for those who work and attend classes there. Weitz\u0026#39;s editorial is quoted in this May 14\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/georgia-public-universities-wont-mandate-covid-19-vaccine\/\u0022\u003EWABE story\u003C\/a\u003E on the University System of Georgia\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;decision not to mandate Covid-19 vaccinations for state\u0026nbsp;public universities and colleges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-05-27 19:49:19","changed_gmt":"2021-05-27 19:49:19","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/education\/get-schooled-blog\/opinion-mandate-vaccines-for-georgia-students-and-staff-on-public-campuses\/PAUT2ZE7OZEEDLJOR6OIBM5ON4\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"11599","name":"Joshua Weitz"},{"id":"187958","name":"vaccine mandates"},{"id":"726","name":"University System of Georgia"},{"id":"728","name":"Board of Regents"}],"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":""}}}