“It’s criminal, during a time of crisis to have life-saving medication and to have those medication options be so tightly restricted,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.  “These restrictions are killing people, and the agency in charge of regulating access is not a health care agency; it’s a […]

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.

“We have this lifesaving tool available throughout the whole time of this crisis, and the federal government has just been sitting on its hands,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.

Northeastern University proposed leading a coalition across Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island to support a biomanufacturing cluster and create jobs for underserved, distressed regions throughout the Northeast. 

Dr. Curtis Odom is the Managing Partner at Prescient Strategists, and an Executive Professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

Still, the desire to be thoughtful can lead to pitfalls, such as overthinking, said Mary Steffel, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University who has studied gift giving. “Givers often end up overshooting, getting things that are maybe more unique or more narrow than what the receiver might want.”

In 2020, Northeastern University in Boston launched the Roux Institute with a donation of $100 million from the Roux Family Foundation, which was established by tech entrepreneur and Lewiston native David Roux and his wife, Barbara.

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.”