Massachusetts Virus Outbreak Looks Like Italy’s Just Two Weeks Ago “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.”
WNYC Radio Is the Coronavirus Changing How We Look At Public Spaces? 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.
Why ‘flattening the curve’ may be the world’s best bet to slow the coronavirus 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.
‘We’re not prepared’: coronavirus could devastate homeless communities 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.
How China Slowed Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Surveillance, Enforcers 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.
Business Insider Travel restrictions could slow the spread of coronavirus, but they are ‘not enough alone’ to stop it Travel restrictions help, but they’re not enough to stop the spread, according to Alessandro Vespignani, a researcher at Northeastern University who models the spread of infectious diseases.
County says a father ignored a coronavirus quarantine directive. His lawyer says he was never told. Whether it comes from a person’s doctor or from health officials, a request to self-quarantine is voluntary and lacks legal force, said Wendy Parmet, a health policy and law professor at Northeastern University.
A father ignored coronavirus quarantine directive and took his daughter to a school dance Whether it comes from a person’s doctor or from health officials, a request to self-quarantine is voluntary and lacks legal force, said Wendy Parmet, a health policy and law professor at Northeastern University.
The New Yorker How Much of the World Will Be Quarantined by the Coronavirus? At the same time, no country can simply quarantine its way out of the covid-19 crisis, Wendy E. Parmet, the director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, told me.
Coronavirus: US easing of online course rules omits foreigners The Trump administration’s waiver of online course rules to help US colleges cope with the coronavirus outbreak does not appear to cover foreign students, risking public health broadly, Northeastern University has warned.
First U.S. Colleges Close Classrooms as Virus Spreads. More Could Follow. Seattle University, with about 7,300 students, also said it would move to online classes for the rest of the winter quarter, and Northeastern University in Boston will do the same for students on its Seattle campus.
Colleges Move Online Amid Virus Fears Brandman University, Seattle University and the Seattle campus of Northeastern University have also moved to remote instruction for the time being.
