651652 external_news 1634136258 1634136258 Human behavior has changed along with the virus and public health measures to contain it. For modelers, it’s a curveball. “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,” says Joshua Weitz, 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 Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool, a map of all counties in the U.S. to determine the risk of attending events, given event size and location. 

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