It’s not rocket science how to get women back to work “The reason this is not a top priority is this is invisible work that gets done by generation after generation of American women,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research on the impact of the pandemic on women.
Union fight with Wu over COVID-19 vaccination is dominating her early tenure Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice, noted that Boston has a long history of “unions not being advocates for reform.” “Their actions over the vaccine doesn’t give me a lot of hope,” he said.
Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules Hit Republican Judge Blockade Some of the decisions against jab mandates feature aggressively ideological and political language that breaks from the traditional style of judicial writing, which is typically staid, careful, and often boring, said Wendy Parmet, a law professor who directs Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
In the wake of unequal vaccine rollouts, countries face a ‘Wild West’ scramble for covid pills Brook Baker, a professor of law at Northeastern University who tracks pharmaceutical deals, estimates generics of molnupiravir could be sold for as little as $10 per treatment.
Mexico has refused to close its borders during the covid-19 pandemic. Does that make sense? Alessandro Vespignani, a physicist at Northeastern University, was a co-author of that study. “Before the [coronavirus] pandemic, the mainstream thinking was, okay, travel restrictions do not have an effect,” he said.
The Telegraph As gun ownership rose during the pandemic, take a look at Illinois’ numbers An estimated 7.5 million U.S. adults became new gun owners over a recent 28-month span, sharply increasing the prospects for home accidents or people taking their own lives, according to research by Matt Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University in Boston.
WCVB TV Demand for COVID-19 testing remains high in Massachusetts 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.
Fortune Omicron may be less severe than Delta, but it could hit the global economy even harder in 4 painful ways “Omicron was fast and furious in its growth and will be fast—hopefully not furious—but very fast also in its decline,” Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and a specialist in data science and computational epidemiology, predicted last week. “It should be receding sooner than other waves that we experienced in the past.”
FiveThirtyEight Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Could Be In Trouble At The Supreme Court “If you do the counting, the partisanship of the outcomes is disturbingly predictable,” said Wendy Parmet, a health law professor at Northeastern University. “You have basically all Democratic appointees upholding [the vaccine mandates]. And almost all of them are being struck down by Republican appointees.” The implications of these cases, she said, could extend far […]
The Government’s Ability to Control the Pandemic Is at Stake Ms. Parmet is a professor of law and the faculty co-director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.
Portland Press Herald Experts urge universal mask-wearing to fight omicron, but behavior varies widely “Generally we can see a decline in protective behaviors everywhere post-vaccination,” David Lazer, a researcher with The COVID States Project and Political Science Professor at Northeastern University said in an email. Mask wearing in particular has plummeted, Lazer said.
GBH From COVID to our crisis of democracy, 2021 turned out to be a scant improvement over 2020 Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a panelist on WGBH 2’s Beat the Press.