Media

Here is an incomplete list of media reports or interviews about my research:

Media reports (interviewed by national and state media)

2020-22: COVID-19

2022

• 1. Brittany Tran. STAT News (Boston). Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study. (Dec 13, 2022).

  2. Clay Voytek. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Georgia rolls back precautions two years after COVID-19 shut down, leaving some vulnerable. (April 11, 2022).

  3. Stanley Dunlap and Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Georgia legislators target COVID mask, vaccine precautions with mandate bans. (February 23, 2022).

2021

• 4. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Regular flu season looms as wildcard as Georgia hospitals strain to treat COVID patients. (September 20, 2021).

  5. Ross Williams and Laura Olson. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). FDA grants full approval to Pfizer's COVID shot, more vaccine mandates predicted. (August 24, 2021).

  6. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Georgia’s COVID mask and vaccine drama on full display at Athens City Hall. (August 5, 2021)

  7. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). VP Harris in Atlanta urges vaccine-shy Georgians: 'Get those numbers up'. (June 18, 2021)

  8. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Kemp set to sign order prohibiting public school mask requirements. (May 27, 2021)

  9. Beau Evans. Capitol Beat News Service (Atlanta). Georgia to ease COVID-19 distancing, gathering restrictions amid vaccine push. (Apr 7, 2021) The same article also appears in White County News (link)

  10. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Push to get teachers vaccinated and back in class now pitted against senior priority. (Feb 1, 2021)

  11. Leslie Nemo. Discover Magazine (Waukesha). Are face masks here to stay? (Jan 6, 2021)

2020

• 12. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Pandemic fatigue, holiday stress create ‘perfect storm’ for COVID surge. (Nov 19, 2020)

  13. Beau Evans. Capitol Beat News Service (Atlanta). Winter sparks worries of new COVID-19 wave in Georgia. (Nov 6, 2020). The same article also appears in Rockdale Citizen and Newton Citizen (link)

  14. Laura Olson, Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). States struggle to draft COVID-19 vaccine plans without details, funding. (Oct 22, 2020).

  15. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Seasonal flu vaccines more urgent as COVID combo threatens ‘twindemics’. (Oct 8, 2020)

  16. Andy Miller. Georgia Health News (Atlanta). Georgia shows high COVID case totals at colleges, but UGA reports improvement. (Sep 29, 2020). Reposted at NPR/GPB (Sep 30, 2020) and NPR/WABE (Sep 30, 2020).

  17. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Georgia college students adapt to online classes, new kind of tests. (Sep 14, 2020).

  18. Isaiah Poritz and Georgia News Lab. NPR/Georgia Public Broadcasting (Atlanta). In Responding To Coronavirus, Some Georgia Colleges Don't Make The Grade. (Sep 8, 2020)

  19. Andy Miller. Georgia Health News (Atlanta). College communities in Georgia emerge as COVID hot spots. (Aug 31, 2020)

  20. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Georgia college students, faculty want more COVID-19 safety on campus. (Aug 5, 2020)

  21. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Georgia’s contact tracers could be swamped by state’s COVID-19 spike. (Jul 9, 2020)

  22. Sam Whitehead. NPR/WABE (Atlanta, GA). Radio broadcast / podcast. Digging Into Georgia’s COVID-19 Numbers. (May 12, 2020).

  23. Danielle Grady. LEO Weekly (Louisville, KY). National lockdown and 5G: Why coronavirus misinformation spreads easily. (Apr 29, 2020)

  24. Beau Evans (Capitol Beat News Service, GA). Gov. Kemp draws fire for reopening Georgia businesses. It appears in The Dahlonega Nugget, The Dahlonega, GA (Link). The same article appears with a different title elsewhere: Death toll rises and cases double here (Cairo Messenger, Cairo, GA) (Apr 22, 2020)

  25. Ross Williams. Georgia Recorder (Atlanta). Health experts challenge claim rural Georgia less threatened by COVID-19 (Mar 30, 2020)

  26. Tim Dickinson. Rolling Stone (New York City). How Long Will Schools Need To Stay Closed? A Pandemic Expert Weighs In. (Mar 26, 2020)

  27. Beau Evans (Capitol Beat News Service, GA). Henry Herald (McDonough, Henry County, GA). 'Break the chain': How will Georgia halt the spread of coronavirus? (Mar 24, 2020). Same Article also appear in Clayton News Daily (Link), The Eatonon Messenger (Link), Marietta Daily Journal (Link), Newnan Times-Herald (Link)

2016-2019: Digital health

• 1. Flora Carmichael & Juliana Gragnani. BBC (London). YouTube advertises big brands alongside fake cancer cure videos. (Sep 13, 2019); Portuguese version (Link).

  2. Megan Gannon. NBC Mach. That Tweet You Just Sent Could Help Predict a Flu Outbreak. (May 19, 2017)

  3. Mike Ives. The Independent (London). How Vietnam tries to stop false health scares from going viral. (Oct 20, 2016)

  4. Mike Ives. The Atlantic (Washington DC). When Epidemics Go Viral. (Oct 18, 2016) Also on digg.com: Going Viral: How Social Media Will Make or Break.

Research mentioned by journalists in mass media (not interviews)

• 1. Judy Stone. Forbes (Jersey City, NJ). Mining Of Social Media By DHS -- Another Hit To Public Health (Oct 20, 2017)