Wamai, a Kenyan expert on public health who leads a center for global health and disease research at Northeastern University, told TIME that Trump’s move could not have come at a worse time for public health in the global south. One of the programs Wamai runs in east Africa has already been put on hold […]

Nada Sanders, a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, told CNN the supply chain for PPE is a “free-for-all.”

“The more accurately we know the percentage of individuals that are infected, the more specific we can be around the recommendations,” says Samuel Scarpino, who runs the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University.

“If one state opens up— whatever that means—in a way that the other states are not ready to do, it could cause a catastrophe,” says Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. “The virus doesn’t pay a toll on the George Washington Bridge.”

“I hear a lot of companies saying, ‘Oh, this gave us a chance to experiment with remote work,’ ” says Barbara Larson, a management professor at Northeastern University. 

Samuel Scarpino, a professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, also takes issue with the University of Washington model, which he said has some built-in weaknesses.

Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, heads a team that has modeled the spread of Covid-19 and numerous previous pandemics.

Northeastern University has organized a task force to gather the lessons of this experience to “reimagine” the university. Stanford is convening “a recovery team to think through how we will manage the aftermath of this crisis and get our campus back to a new normal.”

And foreign visitors are generally harder to trace than citizens and more likely to stay at hotels and visit potential transmission hot spots, says Alessandro Vespignani, a disease modeler at Northeastern University. “As soon as you reopen to travelers, that could be something that the contact tracing system is not able to cope with,” he […]

Addressing a question raised by Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews about taxing stimulus checks, Rodrigues said, “We are not considering any new tax policy.”

“The medium term is going to be particularly perilous,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply-chain management at Northeastern University. “Global demand is so high, and supply is so far behind, that it’s very hard to envision enough of a ramp-up.” “Even for diseases we’ve been studying for over 100 years, like whooping cough, we […]

“The president can’t magically make them go away,” said Wendy Parmet, a public-health law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “They’re not his orders.”