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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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“Institutional racism is a public health issue. Police brutality is a public health issue,” says Joshua Weitz, a quantitative biologist at Georgia Tech, who has developed a model of COVID-19 spread in Georgia. “COVID-19 represents an ongoing threat and we must work collectively to control new transmission, yet we cannot wait to address systemic issues related to racism,” he says. Weitz and his colleagues created an online dashboard that can estimate, based on the size of an event and its location, the chance that one or more individuals at the gathering will have the virus. Weitz says there’s a significant chance that one or more individuals at any kind of medium or large event, including protests, will have the virus.
