{"651652":{"#nid":"651652","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why It\u2019s So Hard to Predict Where the Covid-19 Pandemic Is Headed Next","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHuman behavior has changed along with the virus and public health measures to contain it. For modelers, it\u0026rsquo;s a curveball.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;The prevailing theme that continues to make things hard now is the interplay between disease state, how people react, and how people react over time,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the School of Biological Sciences, Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, and Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence. In 2020, Weitz and his team created the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning\u0026nbsp;Tool\u003C\/a\u003E, a map of all counties in the U.S. to determine the risk of attending events, given event size and location.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-10-13 14:44:18","changed_gmt":"2021-10-13 14:44:18","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"in solidarity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/why-its-so-hard-to-predict-where-the-pandemic-is-headed-next\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","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":"185391","name":"virus modeling"},{"id":"186199","name":"Covid-19 event risk assessment planning tool"}],"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":""}}}