Bay Area Researchers Close Labs Under New Restrictions

Under an area-wide “shelter in place” order, scientists at some of the world’s leading universities scramble to continue working while confined to their homes.

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Today (March 17), orders took effect in six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area, plus nearby Santa Cruz County, that forbid residents to leave their homes except for work in industries deemed essential or for a handful of other approved activities, such as buying food. For researchers at institutions such as Stanford University and the University of California’s (UC) Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz campuses, the directives, which will be in place until April 7, are bringing most lab experiments to a halt.

Lab closed & everyone is 'sheltering in place.' I told the lab that we're not have any Zoom meetings until next week -- let's take some mental health time to adjust and re-orient.

As for clinical research, the order “takes the challenges that people were having with running trials, getting patients, running a company that we started to experience at the ...

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