Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones “Whatever the explanation is, it’s unsatisfactory,” said Brook Baker, an access to medicines specialist at Northeastern University. “The bottom line is that there are still a lot of unvaccinated people in poor countries and once again, they are at the back of the line.”
Florida’s decision on Covid vaccines for healthy kids adds to confusion and distrust Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, said she couldn’t rule out the possibility that the state would try to tie the recommendation to some sort of legal enforcement measure. But she too felt the impact would mostly be to further undermine confidence among parents. […]
Massachusetts colleges ease COVID-19 measures Northeastern will no longer require students, faculty, and staff to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing as of Monday university officials said Friday. Testing for asymptomatic people will become optional next Monday, but testing for symptomatic individuals will still be required, according to an e-mail from Provost David Madigan and Chancellor Ken Henderson.
COVID-19 disruption, crime wave, ‘defund police’ mantra help fuel recent cop killings James Alan Fox, the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University, is a member of the USA TODAY Board of Contributors.
Scientific American COVID Revealed the Fragility of American Public Health Wendy E. Parmet is Matthews University Distinguished Professor of Law and a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University.
U.S. caseloads fall below the Delta peak. “Mandates spur a very strong reaction,” said Neil Maniar, a professor of public health practice at Northeastern University. “You can sometimes achieve the same goal without having a mandate.”
Voice of America To Mask or Not to Mask? “For the next few weeks, we should see a decrease in epidemic activity. All of the indicators seem to go down,” Alessandro Vespignani said to VOA. Vespignani is the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and leads a team of infectious-disease modelers who have been developing COVID-19 projections since the pandemic began.
Sewage Sampling Already Tracks Covid. What Else Can It Find? “We’ve been seeing this done here, in Ghana, in Bangladesh, all over India, at the UK Health Security Administration,” says Samuel Scarpino, the Institute’s managing director of pathogen surveillance and affiliate faculty at Northeastern University, where he worked on the Somerville city project. “But there’s nobody pulling all of that information together, layering it with […]
At-Home COVID-19 Tests Will Soon Be Everywhere “From a manufacturing standpoint, it’s never a good idea to give 100% of your capacity to one product or one customer,” says Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. “It’s very risky. One of the tenants of supply chain management is to diversify.”
Confidence in COVID-19 vaccine declining among parents of youngest kids, survey says Fifty-four percent of parents of children under 5 said they were likely or somewhat likely to get their children a COVID-19 vaccination, down from 62 percent in September and 58 percent in November, according to the survey released Friday by the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, a joint project of […]
COVID inequity: In Africa, at-home tests are scarce, costly “Donors cannot deploy the tests until WHO say it’s OK to deploy, and countries themselves don’t want to use the tests until they get that guidance,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University who advises the WHO and others on equitable access to COVID-19 medicines and tests.
Marketplace COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5 could be available soon And every time that the pool of vaccinated people expands, so does economic activity, said Alicia Modestino, an economics and public affairs professor at Northeastern.