{"648090":{"#nid":"648090","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia passes up millions of vaccine doses as demand plummets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDemand for Covid-19 vaccinations has fallen so dramatically in Georgia that the state has been turning down millions of allocated doses, telling the federal government to distribute them elsewhere. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Patton Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, is part of a team that\u0026rsquo;s attempted to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19dashboardgt.shinyapps.io\/us_immunitylevel\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eestimate the level of immunity\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;via prior infection and vaccination in the U.S. and in each state. Weitz\u0026nbsp;estimates about 60% of Georgians have some level of immunity. But millions remain unprotected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-06-11 17:28:16","changed_gmt":"2021-06-11 17:28:16","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/investigations\/georgia-passes-up-millions-of-vaccine-doses-as-demand-plummets\/EBR6AQ5HCNBBJMHRYIXBRW2MHM\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","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":"764","name":"immunization"},{"id":"12434","name":"Vaccines"},{"id":"187370","name":"herd immunity"}],"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":""}}}