“We are in a very dangerous place in Massachusetts, and part of that is almost certainly how we’ve changed our behaviors,” said David Lazer, a Northeastern University professor and researcher with the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, which sponsored the survey.

For the past several months, a team of researchers from Northeastern University, Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern University have been conducting a 50-state survey aimed at gauging how people’s behaviors have changed during the pandemic.

“We really need some degree of coordinated behavior, and some of that is about individual responsibility and some of that will be coordinated acts by our institutions, our schools, our universities and our government,” Lazer said. The Northeastern University computational social scientist said we must get more aggressive immediately, because, as he says, the bad […]

Modelling by Northeastern University in Boston suggests that if 50 rich countries receive the first 2bn doses of a vaccine that is 80% effective, it will prevent 33% of deaths from covid-19, whereas if the vaccine is distributed according to countries’ population, the share of those saved almost doubles.

Nada Sanders, a professor of supply-chain management at Northeastern University, says the availability of a vaccine will not lead immediately to vaccinations, because so much else needs to be organised. 

Northeastern University law professor Leo Beletsky said this report is more evidence that federal authorities should remove barriers to opening SCSs, especially amid concerns about rising overdose deaths during the pandemic.

This month researchers at America’s Northeastern University published research examining the link between vaccine reach and Covid-19 mortality.

As 5 Investigates and Northeastern University’s School of Journalism discovered, this conflicting kind of traffic and pedestrian signaling is not uncommon. Crosswalks at nearly 300 intersections all over the city operate under what is known in urban street planning lingo as “concurrent walk signaling.” They first appeared in Boston in the 1970s and have nearly […]

“We’ll probably figure out how to solve, in the short term, the cold chain, just because the estimates of the economic costs I’ve seen in the US are in the trillions of dollars. Longer term, in the US and globally, something that has to be at minus 70 is almost a nonstarter,” says Sam Scarpino, […]

The reality, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University, is that businesses won’t really bounce back until the virus gets knocked down, and that could be an argument to take another hit, hopefully for just a few weeks, and shut down more fully.

“I don’t think the United States ever had multiple waves,” said Alessandro Vespignani, professor of physics, computer science, and health science at Northeastern University in Boston who models the pandemic’s impact. “We are leading the same wave that is moving across the country.”

“We shouldn’t be evicting people during a pandemic,” said Sam Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University. “From an epidemiological perspective, households are high risk for transmission.”