“It really improved the performance of all of the masks, and it brought several of them up and over the baseline mask we were using, which was a 3M surgical-type mask,” says Loretta Fernandez, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University and one of the scientists who conducted the research.

The other models, including those from Northeastern University and Columbia University, which are built on epidemiological theory, use estimates about how contagious the virus is, how long it takes for people to recover, and what share of infected people with different risk factors will develop a serious illness or die. 

“Grownups can have very strong love-hate feelings about their siblings, but adults don’t always recognize how formative those childhood relationships were,” says Laurie Kramer, PhD, a clinical psychologist and Professor of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University.

Campaigns to get nonviolent drug offenders released during the pandemic may not be sufficient, says Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

And that’s the lab’s best case scenario. Meanwhile, the best case scenario charted by experts at Northeastern University in Boston indicated an infection rate of one per 1 million in New York could be even further off, though the online model only goes through the end of this month. 

“Come on, you need to have a plan,” said Alessandro Vespignani, an Italian American physicist and expert on mathematical epidemiology at Northeastern University in Boston. “This is like everyone is talking about D-Day but they don’t know if they have ships, soldiers or support. But all everyone is talking about is when is [the date] […]

Boston, observes Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun, is well positioned to thrive in a world in which protecting public health will be paramount. That plays well to the region’s strength as a medical-industrial powerhouse anchored by academic research hospitals and biotechnology firms.

In the US, a partnership between Northeastern University’s Barabasi Labs, Harvard Medical School, the Network Science Institute and biotech start-up Scipher Medicine is also on the search for drugs that can quickly be repurposed as Covid-19 treatments.

State officials have disputed the projections of the group at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, as has Samuel Scarpino, a professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

Researchers at Northeastern University have found that adding an outer layer made from nylon stockings to a homemade face covering can boost its ability to filter out small particles in the air by creating a tighter seal between the mask and the wearer’s face. In some cases, that extra nylon layer helped homemade cloth masks […]

State officials have disputed the Washington projections, as has Samuel Scarpino, a professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

“Most people are trying to act in the best way they know how in the context of not knowing too much about a virus that’s killing a lot of people,” said Aziza Ahmed, professor of law at the Northeastern University School of Law and an expert on health law.