The Daily Beast How the White House Caved to Fox News’ Biden ‘Crack Pipe’ Faux-Scandal Leo Beletsky, a law and health sciences professor at Northeastern University School of Law, told the Associated Press he was let down by the White House’s reaction to the GOP outrage. “This administration has said repeatedly they are making harm reduction one of their key priorities,” he stated. “As soon as there’s a little right-wing echo chamber […]
Voice of America Facebook Objects to Releasing Private Posts About Myanmar’s Rohingya Campaign Companies have long cited privacy concerns to protect themselves, said Ari Waldman, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University. What’s new is the vast quantity of data that companies now collect, a treasure trove for investigators, law enforcement and government. “Private companies have untold amounts of data based on the commodification of […]
ABC News Where COVID-19 has and hasn’t spread since states reopened: Analysis Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, has been tracking the public health data throughout the pandemic. He told ABC News that the outbreaks in the factories align with reports that workers were not provided with proper personal protective equipment or allowed to socially distance and denied other protections.
AFP As US newspapers slide toward abyss, a bidding war breaks out “Alden is offering a clean bid; they have cash and are waving it in front of the shareholders,” said Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor.
Buzzfeed West Virginia Is Trying To Block Needle Exchanges Amid The Worst HIV Outbreak In The US Meanwhile, as needle exchanges grow nationwide, similar disputes have flared up in California and Washington state. “It’s easy to beat up on West Virginia, but this is a nationwide problem, and these kinds of disputes are happening all over the country,” Leo Beletsky, a public health law expert at Northeastern University, told BuzzFeed News.
ABC News New Google.org COVID-19 database could hold key to disease’s mysteries An international team of researchers from institutions including Boston Children’s Hospital, Northeastern University and the University of Oxford has partnered with Google.org, Google’s nonprofit subsidiary, to release Global.health, a platform that contains information about almost 10 million COVID-19 cases from over 100 countries.
Don’t want to retire? Here’s how to maintain a fulfilling career into your 80s and beyond. Older people who revel in challenges are more likely to do well on cognitive tasks, said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern University and author of “Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.” Her brain scan studies suggest that unusually successful aging may be related to how tenacious a person is.
New science reevaluates risks of indoor dining But that information “doesn’t really help us,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. We know that people who live together are likely to spread the disease to one another, he explained, but the first household member to be infected had to get COVID-19 somewhere else, whether at work, running errands, or out and about […]
Winter will bring new COVID-19 challenges, but it does not have to bring an overwhelming surge “The concern [about flu season] is sort of three-fold,” said Sam Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. First, it’s unclear how influenza viruses and the novel coronavirus will interact: They could inhibit one another or have no interaction at all, or each could amplify the other’s spread. Second, both illnesses can inflame the lungs, and anyone […]
Newsweek Only About a Third of Republicans Would Get a COVID-19 Vaccine and a Third Wouldn’t: Poll More than a third of American respondents told Fairleigh Dickinson University pollsters in late May they would not get vaccinated, and a poll from researchers at Harvard, Northeastern University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University that was conducted in mid-July found Republicans were least likely to express interest in getting a vaccine.
WGBH Banning Police Chokeholds As A Way To Keep Officers More Accountable WGBH News’ Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about his thoughts on police chokeholds
Scientists uncover a 60,000-year-old forest underwater and think its preserved trees may help pioneer new medicines But it wasn’t until December that a team of scientists from Northeastern University and the University of Utah set out on an expedition funded by NOAA to dive into the waters and bring back pieces of wood to study.