Non-Covid-19 lab research grinding to a halt in U.S.

Although research on Covid-19 is charging ahead at full throttle, other academic laboratories are winding down their operations. The social isolation directive is leading to institutional shuttering, and people are unable to work in close contact — or with the equipment they need for their work.

While not all laboratories across the country are ramping down quite yet, most researchers expect they’ll have to adjust their work as the outbreak evolves.

“Unfortunately, it means shutting down some long-term experiments,” one Harvard researcher told STAT's Andrew Joseph. “Stopping those experiments hurts because we lose that amount of time. But everyone has to do their part.”