Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition today to talk about the legality of vaccine passports. 

Samuel Scarpino runs the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University. For example, he says computer models often drastically oversimplify the way people interact with each other.

Jack Dennerlein, a professor at Northeastern University whose research has focused on musculoskeletal disorders, said introducing educational tools in workplaces is often not enough to substantially reduce injuries. Generally, he said, measures that provide mechanical lifts or reconfigure how a workplace is organized have a bigger impact. “It should be fitting the job to the […]

“It’s up to the journal and the scientists who (peer) review for the journals to start holding people accountable and say this doesn’t deserve to be a high profile paper because it only studied males. It can’t be that impactful if we don’t know the answer to the science question in females,” said Rebecca Shansky, […]

Yet and still, most medical experts continue to push for the vaccine and argue that getting vaccinated is the only way students can safely return to school and the fastest way for Americans to return to their everyday “normal” lives. “What most of us want is a safe return to something that looks more normal. That to […]

One word dominates the reasons people give for being hesitant or resistant to getting a COVID-19 vaccine: trust, says David Lazer, a professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University who, with his collaborators, has conducted dozens of surveys over the past year to study people’s attitudes and behaviors during the pandemic.

Researchers from Harvard, Northeastern, Northwestern and Rutgers universities, who are part of the COVID States Project, surveyed nearly 22,000 people nationwide in April and found that over a quarter of mothers were “extremely unlikely” to vaccinate their children.

“Certainly on balance, this would suggest that an endorsement from Trump could be hurtful in the general election with independents,” said David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University and a project co-leader. “If you lose a couple points among independents in a close race, that could be the ballgame.”

Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, has been tracking the public health data throughout the pandemic. He told ABC News that the outbreaks in the factories align with reports that workers were not provided with proper personal protective equipment or allowed to socially distance and denied other protections.

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the trial and what he expects could happen next. 

“The original idea came from wanting to build materials the way biology does,” said Neel Joshi, one of the study’s authors and a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at Northeastern.

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the trial and what he expects could happen next. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.