Jared Auclair

“A lot of the work in the life sciences, you don’t need a degree to do,” said Jared Auclair, the dean of Northeastern’s College of Professional Studies.

Experts at Northeastern University in Massachusetts have predicted that the transmissibility of XBB.1.5 will spark another wave of illness in the US — although it is not expected to overwhelm hospitals and emergency rooms.

“If we don’t react more aggressively within the next couple of months – it’ll never be the same as coronavirus, but it could mimic the (spread of the) AIDS epidemic pretty closely,” said Jared Auclair, an analytical chemist and associate dean at Northeastern University in Boston.

But not so fast — make sure you check the expiration date on that kit before you use it, says Jared Auclair, director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Lab at Northeastern University, who joined GBH Morning Edition host Paris Alston to answer questions about COVID tests. 

BioConnects New England is co-led by Jared R. Auclair, associate dean and director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis and Training Laboratory (BATL) at Northeastern University, and Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor and research director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.

An associate dean at Northeastern University who runs a COVID-19 testing program questions whether the scramble to get tested is really necessary, especially as people face long waits in the cold.

Since the Omicron variant was first identified at the end of November, case numbers have surged in Massachusetts, said Jared Auclair, associate dean of professional programs and graduate affairs at Northeastern University’s College of Science. In the past week, the variant has caused about half of the positive cases a testing lab has confirmed on […]

“We are looking for the omicron variant. Actually, we take a pretty robust approach to our testing program,” said Jared Auclair, who runs the COVID-19 testing program at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University’s coronavirus testing lab in Burlington, Massachusetts, gave NBC10 Boston an inside look.

Inside Northeastern University’s Life Sciences Testing Center in Burlington, a delivery cart with hundreds of COVID-19 tests from the Boston campus arrives every few hours. Jared Auclair, the Director of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, at Northeastern University said, “Since school started, we’ve been averaging about 5,500 tests per day.”