In some of the most far-flung corners of the world, scientists conducting research in the field have had to abandon their work and scramble to try to get home as the pandemic prompts countries to go into lockdown and most air travel grinds to a halt.
— a nationwide quarantine that the government said would go into effect the next day.
The State Department was quickly overwhelmed with repatriation efforts, and the U.S. Embassy in Peru was"extremely slow in responding to this situation," Tierney said, leaving her"disappointed and disillusioned." "It was mass pandemonium at the airport," said Brian Enquist, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, who was leading a weekslong course in Peru to study the effects of climate change on plants and their ecosystems when the government canceled all international flights."It was just pure chaos."
"Every day we all took our temperatures and had them written down, because we're scientists, and that's just what we do with data," Jessup said."The virus was certainly a concern, and as time went on, we were becoming more and more concerned with getting out of Peru before the hospitals got overwhelmed."
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