Ms. Brothers is an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale).

These charts are based on the models created by epidemiologists from Harvard University, University of Guelph and Northeastern University and the state’s advisory board of medical experts, which was created last week.

Based on the state’s claims data and other factors, the jobless rate in Massachusetts is probably about 11 to 11.5 percent, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University. It was 2.8 percent in February.

The Gannett-owned Medford Transcript, for example, no longer has a dedicated staffer, said Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor who lives in that city.

Tom Barnes of Northeastern University’s Master of Science in Respiratory Care Leadership Program tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep that operating a ventilator takes skill and a lot of training.

Barbara Larson, an executive professor of management at Northeastern University, is one of the world’s premier scholars on remote management. 

Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University health policy expert, said the testing problems made tracking the virus challenging: “You need testing to make sure you quickly identify new outbreaks and trace contacts. Put out the small sparks before they become another conflagration.” 

Sam Scarpino, a professor of network science who heads up Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab, models coronavirus outbreaks around the world to better inform the game plan for Massachusetts. 

“Small businesses clearly don’t have the leverage that those big chains do,” said Jared Nicholson, director of the Community Business Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law. “While the landlord is going to be willing to cut a deal with a huge customer, the tiny small businesses may not be able to get that kind […]

Many of the same economic experts and organizations who testified in December have been invited back – the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, the Federal Reserve, Northeastern University professor Alan Clayton-Matthews, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth professor Michael Goodman, and others – as well as the new Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

Sam Scarpino, a professor of network science who heads up Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab, models coronavirus outbreaks around the world to better inform the game plan for Massachusetts. 

“Part of the reason we found it in Seattle is also an element of bad luck, in the sense that it seemingly quickly jumped into a nursing home, and there were fatalities, so we caught it,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute.