Fatherly Feeling Overwhelmed? Here’s The Right Way to Tell a Child That You’re Stressed If stress makes you snap, your first move is to apologize, followed with something along the lines of, “That was not a productive response,” says Laura Dudley, associate clinical professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University.
GBH Explaining The ‘Unusual Route’ Texas Took To Bring Its Election Lawsuit To The Supreme Court GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about that case from Texas and why it was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.
COVID-19 vaccines raise hope but the ‘last mile’ challenge looms She also pointed to a report by Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, which showed unequal distribution of vaccines between rich and poor nations could cause twice as many deaths overall.
Baystate Business: Economic Restrictions Northeastern University Professor Sam Scarpino on the rising Covid numbers in the state that may lead to new economic restrictions
NBC Boston Is Massachusetts Headed for Another Shutdown? “The real concern isthere might not be any options left except for a lockdown,” said Sam Scarpino, director of Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.
Business Insider No, you don’t have to go to your company’s virtual holiday party Laura Dudley, a behavior analyst at Northeastern University, said that missing the nonverbal cues that you would normally experience in person can be taxing on our brains. It’s hard, for example, to maintain eye contact with someone over video chat.
The virus spreads at wildfire speed in tiny Rhode Island, surpassing rates of new cases elsewhere. “One of the things Rhode Island suffers from in the context of Covid is that it’s not a very big state in terms of its footprint,’’ said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. “It’s as though Massachusetts was getting reported on in terms of only what’s happening in […]
What You Need to Know About Getting Tested for Coronavirus A survey from Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School found that this fall, patients had to wait days just to schedule a test and even more time to get results.
We know how to curb the pandemic. How do we make people listen? A recent report by researchers from Northeastern University and elsewhere found that the number of Americans heeding most recommendations has dropped steadily since April.
As Newton prepares to reopen high schools, COVID-19 surveillance testing will begin for staff Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist who did not sign the letter, said surveillance testing needs to be conducted at least once a week to be effective. “Everything I’ve seen suggests that anything longer than a week [and for sure less frequently than every-other-week] is unlikely to have an effect,” Scarpino said in an e-mail.
The Seattle Times Gates Foundation boosts funding to get coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest people Modeling by researchers at Northeastern University commissioned by the Gates Foundation found that if rich nations monopolize the first 3 billion doses of vaccine, the virus will spread unchecked in the developing world for months until more vaccine becomes available. The global death toll could be twice as high compared to a scenario where vaccines are distributed […]
Pandemic Fatigue, Meet Pandemic Anger “The initial research we’re seeing on persuading people to ‘socially distance’ suggests that messages framed in that way tend to be the most effective,” says David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. Such conversations may also be more effective with people you know, according to Aziza Ahmed, a health law professor at Northeastern.
