“If we are going to [use] testing to control outbreaks, you have to get results back in one to two days, even three days is too slow,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University disease tracker. “If I were … anyone setting policy, I would have that on my daily dashboard and would make a lot […]

Jamie Ladge is an associate professor of management and organizational development at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a distinguished research professor at the University of Exeter Business School. 

“In the 1700s and 1800s state and local officials could do all sorts of things in the name of public health, like close businesses and hold ships at port and forcibly quarantine people, that they could not otherwise do,” says Wendy Parmet, a public-health legal scholar at Northeastern University. “But by World War II those […]

Enough with the “but the flu” and “it’s getting better” and “it’s going to go away on its own” talk. There needs to be consistent communications from all levels of government about the risk the virus poses, said Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

Timothy J. Hoff is a professor of management, health care systems, and health policy at Northeastern University in Boston, a visiting associate fellow at the University of Oxford, and the author of “Next in Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health” (Oxford University Press, 2017).

“We found that the model was highly accurate for individuals who lived in neighborhoods in the upper three-fourths of income distribution, and was inaccurate for individuals who live in the lowest quartile,” says lead author Samuel V. Scarpino, an applied mathematics researcher who heads the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University in Boston.

While direct imports from China and other countries may have been responsible for the early introduction of Covid-19 to the US, most spread was state to state, researchers led by a team at Northeastern University in Boston reported.

“People are generally resistant to any requests in those situations,” says negotiation expert Parker Ellen, an assistant professor of management and at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

“We’re getting used to this new, ‘I’m going to assess my risk; I’m not going to just live in my house,’” Dr. William Sharp, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University, said. “I would say with 99 percent certainty, these [conversations] are going to come up.”