A vaccine’s ability to block transmission doesn’t need to be 100% to make a difference. Even 70% effectiveness would be “amazing”, says Samuel Scarpino, a network scientist who studies infectious diseases at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. But there could still be a substantial amount of virus spread that would make it a lot harder […]

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to learn more about U.S. intellectual property law and at least one effort underway to get companies to share their vaccine formulas. 

“There’s definitely a scenario with a coordinated federal response where we had caught the East Coast introductions in time, and have what would’ve amounted to a completely different future with COVID-19,” said Dr. Sam Scarpino, director of the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University. “One thing that’s generally true about epidemics, and we’ve seen this […]

Enrich, professor of law emeritus at Northeastern University School of Law who serves on the board of left-leaning think tank MassBudget, told MassLive earlier this month. “That is simply a confused narrative that has been exploited by lobbyists for the business community.”

“The stakes are definitely higher for low income women,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor of public policy, urban affairs and economics at Northeastern University.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, director of research at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center, says that Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of female workforce participation, which also means it is one of the states with the greatest dependence on childcare. A survey she conducted in the fall found that a quarter of the women who became […]

“Trump wanted to tear the EPA into little bits,” says Sara Wylie, an associate professor at Northeastern University who responded to Shapiro’s email. “We started talking on that email thread about what we might be able to do.”