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#1 Submitted by NJF on October 21, 2020 - 10:33am

Pandemic costs will affect everyone, not just Universities research, but if those in their ivory towers need to be told that I fear we're in for an even worse ride as a result of the lack of foresight and planning, situation nominal...

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