GBH Mass. COVID Numbers Have Stopped Declining. Experts Say They Have An Idea Why And that relaxed attitude could lead to another surge, said Sam Scarpino, who directs the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University. “We are so close,” he said. “We’re under a month away from the general availability of vaccines for adults. We’re a month away from consistently good weather … so that we can have windows […]