An Aug. 19 article by Lee Shearer in the Athens Banner Herald, “Study says ‘explosive localized outbreaks’ expected when classes start at universities like UGA,” reports on the preliminary results of a study by Distinguished Research Prof. John Drake.

Drake, the director of the UGA Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, developed a model of COVID-19 transmission on a university campus that takes into account intervention strategies like surveillance testing, social distancing, and the use of face coverings.

The paper, “Scenario analysis for an outbreak of COVID-19 on a university campus,” is posted on GitHub.