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It’s been a few weeks since we’ve discussed the COVID-19 pandemic, so it seems like we should touch base there. Having disrupted the exponential growth of cases (at least for now), thoughts are turning towards how to move forward. The burden of staying at home is substantial and not equally distributed, so wanting to get out again is understandable. At the same time, with most of the population still unexposed and thus susceptible and a vaccine still along ways off, the mitigation of spread is still highly contingent on measures like social distancing, sheltering in place, and voluntary self-quarantine. Any contemplation of resuming interrupted activities requires careful consideration of how reduce the risk of transmission. For research institutions and scientists like many of you, that includes figuring out how to make laboratories safer.
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