That’s the case being made by Daniel Aldrich, director of the security and resilience program at Northeastern University in Boston.

“They may not know how to make the ventilators, but they may be able to offer the scale that the ventilator manufacturers cannot,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.

Kris Lee, Ed.D., a professor at Northeastern University, behavioural science expert and author of Mentalligence: A New Psychology of Thinking: Learn What it Takes to be More Agile, Mindful and Connected in Today’s World, explains, “When something happens, our brain’s automatic response is to be reactive. When our amygdala, the small part of our brain that regulates […]

“The danger is exclusive rights can mitigate universal access needed to respond to the pandemic quickly, so we’re trying to change the rules of the game, but we’re playing catch-up in some cases,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst for the Health GAP advocacy group.

“Norms and expectations about this differ from country to country,” said David Lazer, professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University in Boston. 

“We need to remember that some of the people who are suggesting this are the same people who said there was no problem, and this was just the common cold,” Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in health care and bioethics, told Stat News.

Samuel Scarpino’s working with a group at Northeastern University that’s modeling the pandemic.

But it wasn’t 14 days, it was more like two months before things really started to come back to normal,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, who is studying the pandemic using mathematical and computational modeling.

In some instances, people can sue others for making them sick, explains Aziza Ahmed, a professor of law at Northeastern University. 

“We didn’t necessarily anticipate in early January that this was going to become a pandemic,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute and a member of the collaboration team.

WGBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed on Tuesday to learn more about how officials plan to craft and enforce the advisory.

Under the U.S. Constitution, states have “an inherent power to take actions to protect the health and wellbeing” of their residents, says Wendy E. Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.