Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed joined Aaron Schachter on Morning Edition to discuss whether these vaccine mandates are likely to withstand the inevitable flurry of courtroom challenges.

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, told the New York Times that “it was not biologically possible” to experience overdose symptoms, or to die, from touching or being exposed to the drug.

“It is very clear that you cannot overdose by touching fentanyl,” said Dr. Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston and an associate adjunct professor of public health at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

Leo Beletsky,  a law and health sciences professor at Northeastern University, told the outlet Faiivae’s reaction could have been caused by stress or panic surrounding the drug that exists among law enforcement.

David Lazer, a researcher at Northeastern University and an author of the COVID States research, said while a blanket mandate is infeasible, “it’s a useful thought experiment.” The strong sentiment in favor of a vaccine requirement likely stems from frustration vaccinated people are feeling with those who have waited, he said.

We chat with Iris Berent, a cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University, who studies human nature, and the moral implications of our “true selves.”

The COVID States Project, a polling consortium out of Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern universities, found in a June/July poll that 64 percent of Americans approved of the government requiring everyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine.