BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Senior representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Transparency International and the World Bank will join other le
The COVID-19 crisis in India could cause a global economic chain reaction If SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, continues to surge in India, it could hobble businesses and indeed economies around the world, says Nada Sanders, university distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern. AP Photo by Himanshu Sharma/Abaca/Sipa USA
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continues to drop as cases of COVID-19 in the country soar a humanitarian crisis that makes the country vulnerable to counterfeit medicines and could also have wide-reaching supply-chain consequences around the world, say Northeastern scholars of supply chain management and criminology.
The Grift and Cybercrime Blight on the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout
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Last August, U.S. federal agents searched the Redmond, Washington, laboratory of Johnny Stine, a bootleg biotechnician whom they’d been investigating since March. As they fanned across Stine’s warehouse, they encountered your typical scientist fare: lab equipment, test tubes, a microscope, but also “empty beer bottles and a surfboard,” according to a complaint made public by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January.
Black market starting to emerge amid coronavirus vaccine shortages [The Orange County Register]
Jan. 31 In Miami, priority access to COVID vaccines was dangled as a lure to big hospital donors.
In New York, hospital workers laboring from home cut in front of their frontline colleagues on the COVID-19 vaccine line.
In California, teachers at the wealthy Los Gatos Union School District were urged by their superintendent to masquerade as health care workers to get vaccines ahead of schedule.
Scarcity of vaccines amid a deadly global pandemic is fueling fears of a black market that could inflict great harm on public health and confidence, where potentially stolen, spoiled or fake vaccine is sold to those who can afford to pay while the real thing is in short supply in communities most heavily impacted by COVID, experts said.
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Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden s victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
By Peter Ramjug
News at Northeastern
Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters carrying “Trump 2020” flags and wearing “Make America Great Again” caps dramatically stormed the United States Capitol on Wednesday as lawmakers voted to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. It was a scene that Northeastern professors described as an attempt to undermine the ideals of democracy.