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Some doctoral students led by Prof. Dimitris Bertimas at MIT Sloan are turning their machine learning and analytics skills against COVID-19.

Should a nurse or doctor who gets sick treating Covid-19 patients have priority access to a potentially life-saving healthcare device?

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson, Kate Kellogg, and Retsef Levi write: "Residents of nursing facilities in Massachusetts are in grave danger."

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Chintan Vaishnav writes: "COVID-19 has already set the scene for the biggest global recession since the 1930s."

“Research,” [Sterman] deadpans, “shows that showing people research doesn't work.” What does work is playing games.

“We are reasonably certain until approximately June 15 there will be significant measures...After that, God knows.”

As Connecticut and the country face a crisis unlike anything in our lifetimes, will innovators meet the challenge?

Prof. Chatterjee says Amazon’s brick-and-mortar competitors would need months of lead time to build the kind of distribution muscle Amazon has.

“...we should invest … [in] projects that will have a long-run payoff that will enable the industries and jobs of the future."

"Job creation is, by definition, a net number. We need new businesses...to create economic opportunity..."