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How long should Americans expect to live like this — separated from friends, coworkers and classmates? Experts say they don’t know.
The answer also depends “on how we respond over the next few days,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, and “if we increase the amount of social distancing, remote work, school closures, etcetera,” or blithely ignore the advice of public health officials by going to crowded bars and restaurants, as many in […]
Business Insider
Coronavirus just dropped white-collar workers in the middle of America’s biggest accidental experiment
Eddleston at Northeastern University recently published a paper that dissects the link between telecommuting and career success.
Bye Bye Bernie
Alan Schroeder is a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. Schroeder is the author of several books, including Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail.
The Globe and Mail
The first coronavirus error was complacency
Indeed, according to research by network scientists at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, the U.S. was the fifth most likely country to import COVID-19 from China, after Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
NBC News
Sanitizer. Skip the handshake. No audience. An unusual debate, thanks to coronavirus.
“They don’t really play a role,” said Alan Schroeder, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism in Boston and the author of “Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV.”
Salon
Why “social distancing,” if done wrong, can make you more vulnerable
Yes, it’s critical to follow the Centers for Disease and Control definition, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t be there for each other in different ways. Daniel P. Aldrich, Professor and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University, began studying resilience in disasters after his home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
PBS NewsHour
How health care inequity could make the COVID-19 crisis worse
“In effect, the more cases there are, the more risk everyone faces,” Northeastern University public health law expert Wendy Parmet said. “For that reason, we protect everyone by helping the most vulnerable people in our country stay healthy.”
PBS NewsHour
How this psychologist suggests we manage COVID-19 fears
Jeffrey Brown talks to David DeSteno, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who studies periods of stress and trauma.
What more could he do? A look at Trump’s extreme powers
“The federal public health power is pretty awesome … awe-inspiring in its breadth,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University. “But there’s also obviously a lot of danger.”
WGBH
Sticking To The Facts On Coronavirus
On this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney was joined by Callie Crossley of WGBH News; Mike Nikitas of University of New Hampshire; Jon Keller of WBZ News; and Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University.
Want to Sue Because of a Coronavirus Quarantine? Good Luck
Wendy Parmet, a health policy and law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said safety was also outweighing liberty in the minds of those potentially affected by restrictions, at least for now.
President Trump just declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency. Here’s what that means
Beyond the legal and bureaucratic power that national emergency declarations can wield, it may prove most impactful simply by virtue of its source, said Wendy Parmet, a health policy and law professor at Northeastern University.