{"649273":{"#nid":"649273","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mask Anxiety Returning To Georgia College Campuses, Now With Vaccine Controversy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMasks and vaccines have reemerged as topics for debate in recent weeks as cases rise again \u0026mdash; there were 2,568 confirmed cases in Georgia as of Friday, up from 355 on July 1, according to state health department data. \u0026quot;In the absence of mandates, we are receiving late-breaking aspirational messaging, which the virus won\u0026rsquo;t care about,\u0026quot; says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the School of Biological Sciences, and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-08-05 16:05:50","changed_gmt":"2021-08-05 21:27:33","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Whistle Bistro","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2021\/08\/03\/mask-anxiety-returning-georgia-college-campuses-now-vaccine-controversy","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"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":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"726","name":"University System of Georgia"},{"id":"188411","name":"masking"},{"id":"12434","name":"Vaccines"}],"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":""}}}