“Most people are trying to act in the best way they know how in the context of not knowing too much about a virus that’s killing a lot of people,” Professor Aziza Ahmed tells The New York Times.
“California and Washington appeared very early to be leaders in taking action, while much of the rest of the country remained in the illusion that somehow this wasn’t coming,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Daily Beast. “I don’t think any state has done it perfectly—maybe they can’t in this environment.”
“We’re in like the 1950s in tobacco years when it comes to the gambling industry,” Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute tells MASSLive.