Comcast and Charter, the two largest cable broadband providers in the US, kept average internet speeds fairly steady despite the surge of gaming and video, without throttling major streaming video services, according to preliminary data from researchers at Northeastern University.

Sara Jensen Carr, assistant architecture professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, said cholera and yellow fever outbreaks resulted in the building of underground wastewater systems and green spaces like New York City’s Central Park.

In 2016, researchers at Northeastern University tracked the prices of more than 16,000 of the most popular items on Amazon and collected information about the top sellers for those products, including their ratings. 

She works with a group at Northeastern University whose high-powered model is already trying to find some answers. 

“By the time they detected the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately, there were thousands of infections in several cities,” says Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.

The good news is that the work of addressing supply bottlenecks should be relatively straightforward. “This is supply chain 101. This is operations 101,” Nada Sanders, a supply chain management expert at Northeastern University, told me. “It’s so simple. And it’s just not happening.”

The Northeastern Univ. model is projecting between 74K and 91K deaths in the U.S. by May 23, with an average of 79K. 

Aziza Ahmed, a professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston, said what while some state shelter-in-place orders specify fines and incarceration for violations, each state can choose how strictly to enforce the rules.

The president’s nationwide approval rating for the coronavirus response was 44% while 40% disapproved, according to the poll conducted for Northeastern University, Harvard University and Rutgers University researchers.

The Northeastern Univ. model is projecting between 74K and 91K deaths in the U.S. by May 23, with an average of 79K. 

Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in health care and bioethics, said the expiration of the guidelines doesn’t change much as states are already calling the shots on when to lift restrictions. 

One powerful reminder of how well social distancing curbs infectious disease comes from another forecasting model with a local partner, Northeastern University.