{"654074":{"#nid":"654074","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Opinion: Which metro Atlanta classrooms face greatest COVID risk?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/staff\/maureen-downey\/\u0022\u003EMaureen Downey,\u003C\/a\u003E education\u0026nbsp;columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, used the Georgia Tech-developed\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Event Risk Tool\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eto determine which metro Atlanta school districts face the biggest risk of Covid infection\u0026nbsp;as students head back to classes. The Tool was developed by \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 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of\u0026nbsp;Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, Co-Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure;\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/people\/clio-andris\u0022\u003EClio Andris\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;of City \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;Regional Planning and\u0026nbsp;Interactive Computing. Downey found that students and teachers in Douglas, Henry, Cobb, Fulton, and Rockdale counties face the highest risk, with a greater than 75 percent chance that a gathering\u0026nbsp;of 25 people (an average class size)\u0026nbsp;will have at least one person with Covid-19.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-01-05 16:06:34","changed_gmt":"2022-01-05 16:06:34","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/education\/get-schooled-blog\/opinion-which-metro-atlanta-classrooms-face-greatest-covid-risk\/FCSTYZS6LNE5XG6CM3IAPIREHI\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","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":"187583","name":"Clio Andris"},{"id":"189626","name":"Covid-19 Event Risk Tool"},{"id":"189627","name":"metro Atlanta schools"},{"id":"189628","name":"Maureen Downey"}],"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":""}}}