In for Jim Braude, Adam Reilly joined Juliette Kayyem, a senior lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a WGBH News and CNN contributor; and Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and the head of the university’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.

Policymakers should use summer break to make clear contingency plans that address the possibility of a new wave of infections during the fall semester, said Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University.

Kudlow’s previous highlight as a White House official was the Feb. 25 interview in which he said the coronavirus had been “contained” in the U.S. According to Northeastern University modeling cited in a Thursday New York Times visual about the spread of the pandemic, the number of undetected cases in the country rose from about 2,000 to about 32,000 […]

 Undetected infections by Feb. 15, per estimates from a Northeastern University modeling team led by Alessandro Vespignani

Christina “Nina” Schlegel, director of the Global Center for Climate Justice at Northeastern University. 

Max Abrahms is an associate professor of Public Policy at Northeastern University and a fellow at the Quincy Institute.

On the surface, they have nothing in common. But, according to network scientist Samuel Scarpino, they’re all complex systems that spread. Sam’s job is to crack the rules underlying their spread, and then apply them to epidemics such as Covid-19.

These numbers mean that preventing superspreader events could go a long way toward stopping COVID-19, says Samuel Scarpino, a network scientist who studies infectious disease at Northeastern University.

“This personal touch is missing,” said Laura Dudley, an associate clinical professor at Northeastern University and expert in behavior analysis and body language. “We’re hungering for that human interaction, that friendliness, so we’re starting to do things like waving to say goodbye. It feels a little nicer than just clicking off.”

“We already know from research that (Black, Indigenous, people of colour) are overrepresented in the Canadian judicial system and are more likely to be targeted by law enforcement,” said Toni Morgan, managing director at the Center of Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) at Northeastern University. 

A big reason is the “contagion” effect, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University who, along with The Associated Press and USA Today, has been tracking mass killings back to 2006.

“Facial recognition technology is so inherently destructive that the safest approach is to pull it out root and stem,” said Woody Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at the Northeastern University School of Law.