The weather has been freezing up a statewide vaccination process that so many wish would run fluidly. Massachusetts is behind in administering vaccinations, according to a supply chain expert at Northeastern University, but the large-scale effort can help. “I think mass vaccination sites are really important because you want to maximize throughput in supply chain […]

Dr. Nada Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University, says mega sites should be part of a wider system that brings back hospitals to vaccine distribution. And supply chain experts should be included in decision making. “I see constantly questions being asked of physicians about supply chain,” she said. “They don’t understand […]

“We’ve been very sluggish at getting to this next level of vaccination — individuals that are 65 plus — and I have not seen a clear explanation for why it is that we have the vaccines here and are not getting them into people’s arms efficiently,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network […]

But the computational epidemiologist from Northeastern University, whose COVID-19 modeling is used in CDC forecasts, said this is actually a critical time in the pandemic, despite sinking numbers of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. “The issue is that we are in a race,” Dr. Vespignani said. “So on one side, we are trying to immunize as […]

“If you look at the cases tied to long-term care facilities, tied to health care settings, there have been week on week drops,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

Tucker Marion, an associate professor at Northeastern University focused on entrepreneurship and innovation, said copying and acquiring rivals isn’t a bad strategy, but it needs to be coupled with the company also pursuing its own original ideas. “You really can’t sustain yourself unless you’re doing that,” he said. “At some point you’re going to face […]

Joan Fitzgerald is professor of urban planning and policy at Northeastern University. Her latest book is Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 2020). Greg Coppola is a graduate student in environmental science and policy at Northeastern and part of the Energy Affordability and Equity Team at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.   

“It would be opening different doors for different people. People who are vaccinated would have more opportunities than people who are not vaccinated,” said Wendy Parmet, Matthews University Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.

“Even if this isn’t the best possible plan, the fact that we seem to be coming up with a plan for how to ensure that we don’t waste any of the vaccines and they get into people’s arms — this is a good step,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. “Doing something early is […]

“We’re standing at an inflection point,” said Sam Scarpino, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab. Thanks to the arrival of vaccines, he said, “we finally have the chance right now to bring this back under control, but if we ease up now, we may end up wasting all […]

“We’re going to see the same cycle again,” said Northeastern University law professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst at the Health Global Access Project. “The rich countries will run to the front of the line for the new variant vaccines. And countries will be left behind again as petri dishes for new variants to develop.”

Last year, Pymetrics paid a team of computer scientists from Northeastern University to audit its hiring algorithm. It was one of the first times such a company had requested a third-party audit of its own tool. CEO Frida Polli told me she thought the experience could be a model for compliance with a proposed law […]