{"659219":{"#nid":"659219","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Pandemic Lockdown Triggered Sharp Drop in Preterm Births, Georgia Tech Study Finds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFox 5 Atlanta interviewed Daniel Dench, assistant professor in the School of Economics, about his research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on premature births for the segment, \u0026quot;Pandemic Lockdown Triggered Sharp Drop in Preterm Births, Georgia Tech Study Finds.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the piece, which aired June 30, 2022, Dench discussed his findings that premature births declined during the pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe numbers stayed down throughout the rest of 2020, and Dench says access to prenatal care may have been a driving factor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Women weren\u0026#39;t spending as much time in the care of the doctor, and not as many tests were run that would have led a doctor to be concerned and want to take the baby early,\u0026quot; he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2022-07-01 18:36:51","changed_gmt":"2022-07-01 19:04:15","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/pandemic-lockdown-triggered-sharp-drop-in-preterm-births-georgia-tech-study-finds","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"651006":{"id":"651006","type":"image","title":"Daniel Dench","body":null,"created":"1632323750","gmt_created":"2021-09-22 15:15:50","changed":"1632323750","gmt_changed":"2021-09-22 15:15:50","alt":"Daniel Dench","file":{"fid":"247013","name":"RS647_Dench Daniel profile-scr.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS647_Dench%20Daniel%20profile-scr.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS647_Dench%20Daniel%20profile-scr.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":90596,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RS647_Dench%20Daniel%20profile-scr.jpg?itok=PUT_Yq8L"}}},"media_ids":["651006"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}