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.

One option for Janey, said Deborah Ramirez, a law professor at Northeastern University: The acting mayor could declare the city will no longer pay 100 percent of legal costs, judgments, and settlements associated with civil suits alleging on-the-job police misconduct and require officers to have professional liability insurance.

Margaret Y.K. Woo Brook Baker The authors are faculty directors for the Program on Human Rights in the Global Economy, at Northeastern University School of Law.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor and MassBenchmarks senior contributing editor, said Massachusetts “has had more potential for a stronger rebound than the nation” because the economic shutdown in the Bay State was broader than elsewhere and led to greater job losses.

Because the U.S.’ vaccination strategy targeted high-risk individuals by age, almost all of these younger hospitalized patients have yet to be vaccinated, Samuel Scarpino, epidemiologist and assistant professor at Northeastern University, told ABC News.

Vanderbilt University and Northeastern University are among those staggering arrival times at the ceremony, so that students enter the venue in shifts, reducing the size of each gathering.

Mark A. Gottlieb is executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, where he is an adjunct professor. Richard Daynard is a University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law and president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute.

Self-folding robots, developed by Samuel Felton, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, and his team, are one of the first adopters of this language. 

Nada Sanders is a Distinguished Professor of Supply Chains at Northeastern University. “And that has not allowed the system to come back,” she said. “So I think we’re really vulnerable. We have to be very careful now, I think, to monitor very closely and begin putting in some extra buffers, so that we can have […]

David Lazer, professor of political science at Northeastern University and a researcher with the Covid States Project, said “partisan divides on behaviors and policies have been acute throughout the pandemic”, but Democrats and Republicans are more evenly split on vaccines compared with other policies against Covid-19, like mask-wearing and social distancing.