{"649356":{"#nid":"649356","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"While some spend first day of school quarantining, other families celebrating the return to class","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAug. 2-6 was the first week of school for many of Georgia\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;K-12 students, and while some\u0026nbsp;indeed celebrated being back inside a classroom, other parents and students remain\u0026nbsp;worried about the Delta variant of the coronavirus,\u0026nbsp;which now makes up 78 percent of the state\u0026#39;s new infections. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/finn\/m.g.\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor and Chair, and\u0026nbsp;James A. Carlos Family Chair for Pediatric Technology in the\u0026nbsp;School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, tells 11 Alive News that masking is one of the easiest and most effective\u0026nbsp;things citizens can do to help reverse the recent virus trends in Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-08-09 17:30:13","changed_gmt":"2021-08-09 17:30:13","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Aaron Stebner","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/school-begins-covid-concers-metro-atlanta\/85-ebd536e4-b958-4737-824e-0d08d73fe444","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"96831","name":"M.G. Finn"},{"id":"183843","name":"coronavirus"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"167555","name":"Schools"},{"id":"188411","name":"masking"}],"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":""}}}