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Silhouette of a worker on the framework of a battery plant.

What should stay open during the next pandemic? New model weighs protecting public health and the economy

Northeastern researchers say closing some industries hurts the economy more than the public health benefits gained in terms of death rate.
Alessandro Vespignani sitting at a desk looking at a laptop.

Northeastern receives $17.5 million from CDC to launch infectious disease prediction center

“Alessandro Vespignani will head the center that will prepare the U.S. for future epidemics, especially in rural areas. With COVID-19, “everybody was caught off guard,” he says. “We don’t want to be in a situation like that in the future.”
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More than 50% of COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented with better global vaccine distribution 

A new research paper by Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani says better vaccine access could have prevented more than half of coronavirus deaths in lower income countries.

If rich countries monopolize COVID-19 vaccines, it could cause twice as many deaths as distributing them equally

Researchers from Northeastern’s Network Science Institute have partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to predict COVID-19 deaths based on two different ways of distributing vaccines.

People in the US started moving around more before stay-at-home measures were lifted

Even before most states began loosening the measures intended to keep people physically distant and slow the spread of the coronavirus, people were starting to travel further and see each other more, according to research from Northeastern’s Network Science Institute.