“We already have to show ID to get onto the plane,” said Sam Scarpino, managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation and an assistant professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. “Showing a vaccination card can be part of that process. We have to take our shoes off. We have to go through metal […]

“We have been through this many, many times,” said Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. “At this point we know that there is a portfolio of interventions that can be layered on top of each other.”

According to economist Alicia Sasser Modestino of Northeastern University, that exodus had a lot to do with the return to school and the demands that remote learning placed on parents. When the PBS NewsHour talked to Modestino this summer for our documentary “Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis,” she had predicted as the year […]

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 […]

Now, with omicron spreading, many people still unvaccinated, the situation is changing yet again. But this just doesn’t seem to be resonating with people yet. I spoke to David Lazer of Northeastern University. He’s a co-director of the COVID States Project.

Gottlieb points out: “On March 1, the CDC’s official tally of Covid cases rose from 15 to 75. Models developed later by researchers at Northeastern University show that by this date, the US probably had 28,000 infections.”

The court didn’t need to strike that tone in order to reach the outcome that it did, according to Wendy Parmet, a law professor who’s the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law, adding that there were other legal issues in the case on which the circuit could have hung its decision […]

Dr. Samuel Scarpino, Pathogen Surveillance at Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director, affiliate professor at Northeastern University told Alix Steel and Guy Johnson on “Bloomberg Markets: Americas” that while early data is encouraging, people still need to be cautious with the omicron variant.

Mandates requiring full vaccination for health-care workers (in facilities receiving government funding through Medicare or Medicaid) and vaccination or testing for federal contractors are also stalled. Many appeals courts are reading federal authority “exceptionally narrowly, in ways that are surprising to those of us who have been in this field for some time,” says Wendy […]

“There’s lots of logistics and training and community health literacy that has to happen in order for this to work well,” said Brook Baker, professor at Northeastern University School of Law who works with the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator, a World Health Organization-backed effort meant to ease access to Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics.