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This is a podcast extra from nature.

We've been talking a lot about the coronavirus outbreak over the past few weeks,

but how is it affecting individual researchers? In this podcast extra, Nick Howe, here's one scientist's

story. I'll be canceling my travel plans probably because now I can probably fly, but whether

I'm going to

be admitted or not I was actually supposed to give a talk in the UK in like 10 days but I can fly

there only to you know to be put back on a plane. This is Bartas Grabowski, a researcher based

at the Olson National Institute of Science and Technology in Olson, South Korea.

I called him up early in the morning on Skype to talk to him about his work for an upcoming nature podcast. But before we got into that, the conversation turned to coronavirus.

Bartosh had found himself in the midst of the outbreak in South Korea.

I quickly started recording on my laptop.

This is an extract from that conversation.

Yeah, yeah.

They're quarantines.

They shut down the, like, skulls.

My son is not going to school, and half of the universities is dead, you know, like only

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