{"650046":{"#nid":"650046","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Hawaii\u0027s Governor Asks Tourists To Stay Away Because Of Covid","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech-developed\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool\u003C\/a\u003E may have led Hawaii\u0026#39;s governor and Honolulu\u0026#39;s mayor to urge travelers\u0026nbsp;to stay away during the rise of the Delta variant\u0026nbsp;of Covid-19. The original Associated Press story reports that \u0026quot;Hiro Toiya, the city\u0026#39;s emergency management director, cited a mathematical modeling tool from the Georgia Institute of Technology to illustrate risks the community faced from large gatherings.\u0026quot; \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, and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, led development of the tool. (This story also appeared in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2021-08-24\/governor-now-is-not-a-good-time-to-travel-to-hawaii\u0022\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-08-24 20:39:56","changed_gmt":"2021-08-24 20:39:56","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/23\/1030532161\/hawaii-governor-tourists-stay-away-covid","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","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":"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":""}}}