Hold one-one-one video meetings with everyone and ask about their role and responsibilities, what the team and company could be doing better, unresolved pain points and what they need to be better workers, recommended Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

“The bad news here is that we let our guard down in the pandemic and partisan differences remain,” says David Lazer, a professor of political science at Northeastern University who is helping lead the survey. “The good news here is, there is a collective desire to do what’s necessary to keep the disease at bay.”

Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor of network science who heads Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab, joined WBUR’s Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to discuss what trends may emerge in the latest numbers.

The conclusion reached by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bolsters prior evidence that the virus may have begun spreading across the globe earlier than first believed — including one earlier model from researchers at Northeastern University that projected more than 100 people in Boston had likely been exposed by mid-February.

Here’s David Lazer from Northeastern. He helps run the survey. DAVID LAZER: We let our guard down. And it was still lurking. It was still there, right? And COVID-19 came roaring back.

“We need to be strong, not generate more cases, and to do that, we need to be careful,” said Dr. Alessandro Vespignani, the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. “We don’t want to go into lockdowns or things like that.”

And within Massachusetts, Northeastern University epidemiologist Samuel Scarpino said, there should have been more effort by Governor Charlie Baker’s administration to expand testing. “We never made the decision as a state. We just decided that we couldn’t afford it,” Scarpino said.