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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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Maureen Downey, education columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, used the Georgia Tech-developed Covid-19 Event Risk Tool to determine which metro Atlanta school districts face the biggest risk of Covid infection as students head back to classes. The Tool was developed by 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 at the Ecole Normale Superieure; and Clio Andris, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning and 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 of 25 people (an average class size) will have at least one person with Covid-19.
