Georgia Tech Surveillance Testing Update and Early Interpretations, NOVID App, and Your Questions — Answered

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Professors Weitz and Gibson explain surveillance testing results so far, the need for ongoing vigilance and increased participation, and respond to community questions. Alexa Harter, CIPHER Director for GTRI, shares and answers questions about NOVID app.

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Professors Weitz and Gibson explain Georgia Tech surveillance testing results so far, the need for ongoing vigilance and increased participation, and respond to community questions. Alexa Harter, CIPHER Director for GTRI, shares and answers questions about NOVID app.

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Held virtually on August 20, this Town Hall is a follow up to "Science and Projections for our Return to Campus", held virtually at the start of August. Professors Weitz and Gibson explain the results of surveillance testing so far, share the need for ongoing vigilance and increased participation, and respond to questions from the community. Alexa Harter, CIPHER Director for GTRI, also shares information and answers questions about the NOVID app.

 
Visit the Georgia Tech Campus Survey Testing site: mytest.gatech.edu
 
Learn about and download the NOVID app: Georgia Tech News
 
Greg Gibson is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences, Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, and Genome Analysis core of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech.
 
Joshua S. Weitz is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech and Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences.
 
Alexa W. Harter is Director of the Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research (CIPHER) Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
 
This talk was hosted by the School of Biological Sciences with support from the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech.

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Institute and Campus, Student and Faculty, Research, Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics
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covid-19, covid, coronavirus, sars-cov-2, campus testing, surveillance testing, health, contact tracing, School of Biological Sciences
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