Associate Vice Provost Russell Furr provides an update on public health restrictions at Stanford following the state’s lifting of the regional stay-at-home order, which still leaves local counties in the highest-risk purple tier of the state’s COVID-19 framework.
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In a message to the campus community, Russell Furr, associate vice provost for Environmental Health & Safety addresses the vaccine plan for California, including the role of health care providers in the process; Stanford Health Care’s current distribution priorities; and the creation of Stanford’s COVID-19 Vaccine Governance Committee.
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The State of California’s regional stay-at-home order for the Bay Area continues to be in effect. The order, initially in effect through last week, will be lifted once there is a four-week projection that regional intensive care unit capacity will remain at or above 15%.
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In a message to the campus community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell wrote that due to the continuing COVID-19 surge, lengthening public health restrictions and their likely impact on the on-campus undergraduate experience, Stanford unfortunately will not be able to have the frosh and sophomore classes on campus for the winter quarter as planned.
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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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