How the Virus Got Out Alessandro Vespignani, professor and director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University• Alessandro Vespignani, professor and director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University
This survey asked people to identify false claims about the coronavirus vaccine. 1 in 5 Americans got at least 1 answer wrong. Shedding new light on the problem of vaccine resistance, a survey released Tuesday by a consortium that includes Northeastern University and Harvard University found that 20 percent of Americans believed at least one of four false claims about the coronavirus vaccine.
Massachusetts Virus Outbreak Looks Like Italy’s Just Two Weeks Ago “Massachusetts is smaller than Italy,” said Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor of network science who heads the epidemics lab at Northeastern. “It has about 100 cases. There were 159 cases in Italy two weeks ago. That’s where we’re headed. We’ve got to move now and decisively prepare hospitals, work remotely and ramp up testing.”
The Washington Post: Luck has kept Ebola out of the U.S. But that’s very likely to change Only a fluke of timing prevented Kent Brantly from being in Texas when he got sick with Ebola. Brantly, the first U.S. doctor to get Ebola, was infected in late July while working at a missionary hospital in Liberia. But he didn’t immediately realize he was ill. That’s one of Ebola’s tricks: The virus can […]