Matthew Simonson, a doctoral student at Northeastern University, a researcher with The COVID States Project and the lead author of a new report “Vaccinating America’s Youth” joined Morning Edition to discuss a new study that looked at parents and their willingness to vaccinate their children.

A consortium of universities that includes Harvard, Northeastern and Rutgers has been conducting online polls during the pandemic and recently focused on parents. The group’s latest survey, conducted throughout April and reaching 21,733 adults across 50 states, found that the divide between mothers and fathers in views about the vaccine for children had widened.

Awash in bad information, people have swallowed hydroxychloroquine hoping the drug will protect them against COVID-19 — even with no evidence that it helps (SN Online: 8/2/20). Others refuse to wear masks, contrary to the best public health advice available. In January, protestors disrupted a mass vaccination site in Los Angeles, blocking life-saving shots for hundreds of […]

Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University who specializes in intellectual property and access to medicines, told CBS News that the current system “has resulted in artificially restricted supplies, artificially high prices and grotesquely inequitable distribution.” “The waiver is saying we cannot let the status quo stand,” Baker said. “We cannot let those intellectual […]

That Republican orthodoxy — that government is not to be trusted (and therefore not adequately funded) — is central to our current predicament, according to David Lazer, a professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University. Since March of last year, Lazer and researchers at other universities have been analyzing public attitudes to […]

Alessandro Vespignani, a computational epidemiologist at Northeastern University, was on one of the modeling teams. “On one side, it was encouraging because we were observing that even in the worst case, we were not going to experience again a huge wave, and the vaccine that was acting as a wall against B.1.1.7,” he said, referring […]

Alessandro Vespignani, a computational epidemiologist at Northeastern University, was on one of the modeling teams. “On one side, it was encouraging because we were observing that even in the worst case, we were not going to experience again a huge wave, and the vaccine that was acting as a wall against B.1.1.7,” he said, referring […]

This weekend, I’ll put on a cap and gown for the first time in two years and attend Northeastern University’s commencement activities at Fenway Park. Everyone will be masked and socially distanced, regardless of whether we’ve been vaccinated. But we’ll be together, in person, celebrating the success of our students as their families — well, OK, one […]

“It’s incredibly volatile,” said Northeastern University professor Ravi Sarathy. Sarathy specializes in international business and strategy and is currently writing a book on cryptocurrency. He said this type of asset should play a role in a sophisticated investor’s portfolio. He cautioned that many people appear to be getting swept up in the hype.

Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University, said the lack of that bump among the oldest groups, who were prioritized early to get the vaccines, showed the vaccines had kicked in — and warded off a surge caused by the arrival of the B.1.1.7 variant.

The study — led by researchers from Boston-based Northeastern University, Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., and Boston University — is based on commercial health insurance claims from the Massachusetts All Payer Claims Database, as well as Medicare claims data and data from health plans. Data was collected for MRI referrals for three conditions — uncomplicated […]

“My concern is that we overuse it, and that it’s used at times where there isn’t an active shooter,” said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.