Though Stanford continues to await information on whether universities will play a role in COVID-19 vaccine administration beyond the healthcare setting, the State of California is providing more information about its vaccine plans overall.
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To comply with capacity limitations set by Santa Clara County, Stanford is limiting access to breakrooms and will make alternative break spaces available.
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Russell Furr, associate vice provost for Environmental Health & Safety, notes that Stanford Health Care has begun vaccinating healthcare workers, and says that there is currently no information available as to when the vaccine will be available for the broader community.
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San Mateo County will become subject to the state’s regional stay-at-home order later this week, due to the Bay Area falling below 15% of bed capacity in its intensive care units. The county will join Santa Clara County and other Bay Area counties that had already implemented the regional stay-at-home order on an accelerated basis.
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The county’s updated directive calls for a quarantine of 10 days, rather than the original 14 days, for anyone arriving from travel of more than 150 miles away from Santa Clara County’s borders.
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The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) recently issued an emergency standard addressing worker protections against workplace exposures to COVID-19.
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Given the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic’s impact on international travel and our pressing concerns about Stanford University undergraduate students’ safety and health, all BOSP spring quarter programs have been suspended. This impacts study away programs in Berlin, Cape Town, Florence, Kyoto, Madrid, New York, Oxford, Paris, and Santiago.
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Stanford will proceed with plans to welcome frosh and sophomores to live on campus in the winter quarter, but in light of public health conditions, will adopt a phased undergraduate arrival process and an enhanced COVID-19 testing protocol for their arrival.
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The new guidelines do not change current operations at Stanford. Employees should continue to work from home unless approved to be on campus and those in essential categories should continue to report to work as scheduled.
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Russell Furr, associate vice provost for Environment Health & Safety, details a change for those returning to Santa Clara County from travel outside the area. Beginning Monday, Nov. 30, anyone who returns to Santa Clara County after traveling more than 150 miles away must quarantine for 14 days.
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