{"653010":{"#nid":"653010","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How to have a COVID-safe Thanksgiving gathering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the country\u0026rsquo;s second COVID-19 Thanksgiving approaches, experts say the landscape of risk has changed. New variants have emerged, and tens of thousands of new infections are still occurring every day in the United States. Vaccines are available for everyone age 5 and older, but only 59 percent of people in the U.S.\u0026nbsp;are currently fully vaccinated, and some populations remain at risk due to underlying conditions or compromised immune systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of\u0026nbsp;Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, and Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure,\u0026nbsp;says last Thanksgiving and Christmas coincided with a Covid-19 wave across the country. Weitz\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool \u003C\/a\u003Ehas added smaller group sizes\u0026nbsp;so people can gauge their chances of being exposed at holiday family gatherings.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-11-18 18:56:02","changed_gmt":"2021-11-18 18:56:02","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/how-to-have-a-covid-safe-thanksgiving-gathering","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","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":"2282","name":"Thanksgiving"},{"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":""}}}