650046 external_news 1629837596 1629837596 The Georgia Tech-developed Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool may have led Hawaii's governor and Honolulu's mayor to urge travelers to stay away during the rise of the Delta variant of Covid-19. The original Associated Press story reports that "Hiro Toiya, the city's emergency management director, cited a mathematical modeling tool from the Georgia Institute of Technology to illustrate risks the community faced from large gatherings." Joshua Weitz, Professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the School of Biological Sciences, and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, led development of the tool. (This story also appeared in the Los Angeles Times.)

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