The survey of nearly 320 Maine residents was conducted between April 16 and 26 by the COVID-19 Consortium, a group of researchers from Northeastern, Harvard and Rutgers University, as part of a 50-state survey.

Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University health policy expert, said governments need to consider “harm reduction” when weighing the costs of reopening: “We are never going to get social interactions to zero, so how do we reduce the ones that are high risk?” California needs to avoid the complete “renormalization of social interaction”, but the state […]

“The initial introduction of the virus in the U.S. coincided with the peak of the flu season, so the symptoms you had, it would be difficult to untangle with flu,” said Matteo Chinazzi, an associate research scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who is on a team that has been modeling the virus’ spread around the […]

“The bizarre part of that dissent is that she seems to want to bar people from challenging discrimination and voter suppression because she thinks Congress used the wrong preposition in a statute,” said Michael Meltsner, the Matthews distinguished university professor of law at Northeastern University school of law.

By the end of the coronavirus’s “first wave” this summer, America will likely have buried close to 100,000 victims of the disease, with as many as 9 million people having become infected, according to Alessandro Vespignani, the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

“Sibling relationships are pretty safe,” says Laurie Kramer, professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. “You can have huge fights, wake up and they’ll be there. These relationships can often withstand really negative stuff.”

“While on the one hand, there is no question that a serious pandemic such as we are experiencing can have an enormous effect on the national security of a country, it’s really also important to understand the differences between a naturally occurring disease and, you know, an act of war,” said Wendy Parmet, director of […]

“Language is always in a state of evolution to meet the needs of its users,” said Adam Cooper, a Northeastern University linguistics professor.

“We’ve already learned what moving fast and breaking things can do to society,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, referring to the negative consequences of a tech mind-set that values speed and disruption above all else.

The Northeastern researchers found that adding the nylon layer improved the performance of a DIY mask by between 15% and 50%.

David Lazer (@davidlazer) is University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, visiting scholar at the Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science and author, most recently, of “Politics with the People” (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Alexander DePaoli, a marketing professor at Northeastern University, warned against overthinking when choosing to whom and how much to donate. DePaoli, who researches the effects of emotion in consumer reasoning, said you’ll get the most happiness from donating to what matters to you.