The conclusion reached by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bolsters prior evidence that the virus may have begun spreading across the globe earlier than first believed — including one earlier model from researchers at Northeastern University that projected more than 100 people in Boston had likely been exposed by mid-February.

However, David Choffnes, a professor at Northeastern University who studies network performance, said just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it won’t in the future. “We shouldn’t decide whether net neutrality or the lack of it has been successful based on a few years,” Choffnes said. “Historically, when we see opportunities for an unlevel […]

“A lot of these communities invested in public solar initiatives because they saw how vital it was to make it through the first 72 hours after a disaster,” said Timothy Fraser, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston who spent time with Japanese communities in 2016, tracking the transition to renewable energy in the wake […]

Here’s David Lazer from Northeastern. He helps run the survey. DAVID LAZER: We let our guard down. And it was still lurking. It was still there, right? And COVID-19 came roaring back.

“We need to be strong, not generate more cases, and to do that, we need to be careful,” said Dr. Alessandro Vespignani, the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. “We don’t want to go into lockdowns or things like that.”

And within Massachusetts, Northeastern University epidemiologist Samuel Scarpino said, there should have been more effort by Governor Charlie Baker’s administration to expand testing. “We never made the decision as a state. We just decided that we couldn’t afford it,” Scarpino said.

The pandemic that has engulfed the world since March is making law enforcement officers’ work even more difficult by exacerbating mental health problems, said Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice. “We have some people with mental health issues who can’t get the same treatment,” he said. “We need to help […]

Daniel O’Brien, a public policy and urban affairs professor at Northeastern who led the study said the report’s findings should propel public officials and community organizations to realize that the challenges facing different neighborhoods and populations are unique and serve as a road map to ensure that those communities receive additional support during the second […]

A model built by Sam Scarpino, director of the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University, suggested that a switch back to the old formulation would lead to a significant drop in deaths and illnesses. Given the speed and severity of the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of this effect could be even greater. “Especially in a […]

Matthew Nisbet, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who studies this area, says Bezos is now the largest single source of climate giving in the world — creating a “giant climate change halo”.

Costas Panagopoulos is professor of political science and chair in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University.

For Covid-19, the potential cost in lives is considerable: If the world’s 50 richest countries secure the first two billion doses of vaccines, the pandemic’s ultimate death toll will be twice as large as it would be if supply was shared more evenly, a study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and conducted […]