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This map, created by Alessandro Vespignani and his team, predicts the number of infections in different parts of the U.S., assuming

Models can predict how COVID-19 will spread. What goes into them, and how can we use what they tell us?

On Thursday, Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern, will sit down for a conversation with Alessandro Vespignani, the director of Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, who is leading one of the major efforts to model this disease.

by Laura Castañón May 13, 2020

Subway customers wear masks on a crowded car heading downtown, on March 17, 2020, in New York. AP Photo by John Minchillo

The coronavirus was in the US in January. We need to understand how we missed it.

SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, was circulating in major U.S. cities as early as January, says Alessandro Vespignani, director of Northeastern’s Network Science Institute. And if we want to keep our communities safe going forward, we need to understand how we missed a virus that was right under our noses.

by Laura Castañón April 26, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak is an international public health emergency. Here’s what that means.

“Either the screening, detection, and isolation in China will be able to contain the epidemic there, or it will be a global issue,” says Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani. “And this will be decided in the next couple of weeks.”

by Laura Castañón January 30, 2020

Fear not: The number of locally transmitted cases of Zika in US to be very small

Northeastern researchers project the probability of locally transmitted Zika cases outside of Florida to be extremely low, 'just one or two.' Much of the U.S. has no mosquitoes with Zika and will remain unaffected.

by Thea Singer September 6, 2016

epidemic modeling

Models can predict how COVID-19 will spread. What goes into them, and how can we use what they tell us?

The coronavirus was in the US in January. We need to understand how we missed it.

The coronavirus outbreak is an international public health emergency. Here’s what that means.

Fear not: The number of locally transmitted cases of Zika in US to be very small

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