“We do not want to restrict people’s liberty unless it is necessary, unless we cannot achieve the public health end with less draconian measures,” said Wendy E. Parmet, the director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.

“The idea that people should have skin in the game kind of doesn’t work when you’re also playing with your neighbour’s skin,” says Wendy Parmet, a professor of public-health law at Northeastern University. 

“Massachusetts is smaller than Italy,” said Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor of network science who heads the epidemics lab at Northeastern. “It has about 100 cases. There were 159 cases in Italy two weeks ago. That’s where we’re headed. We’ve got to move now and decisively prepare hospitals, work remotely and ramp up testing.”

Sara Jensen Carr, an assistant professor of architecture, urbanism, and landscape at Northeastern University, joined The Takeaway to discuss how the coronavirus is impacting the perception of public spaces. 

Dan Kennedy is an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a panelist on WGBH 2’s Beat the Press.

Ever wondered how many times your smart speaker accidentally activates in a day? Researchers from Northeastern University did too, and here’s what they found.

Daniel Medwed, professor of law at Northeastern University, called the severity of sentences “relatively benign” when compared with low-level drug offenders, for example, who are put behind bars for years. 

Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, is gravely worried about what he’s hearing from contacts in Italy, where people initially played down the outbreak as “a kind of flu,” he said. 

Daniel Medwed, professor of law at Northeastern University, called the severity of sentences “relatively benign” when compared with low-level drug offenders, for example, who are put behind bars for years. 

After Northeastern University administrators raised alarms with the Department of Homeland Security, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said it would allow foreign students to take online courses, as long as their university notifies ICE of the change within 10 days, said Carissa Cutrell, a spokeswoman for the agency, which runs the student visa program.

Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor and health policy expert, said she was concerned that there appeared to be little discussion at the national level about homelessness. 

In a study released March 6, researchers at Northeastern University in Boston said the Wuhan travel ban slowed the pathogen’s spread in China by three days.