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COVID-19
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Covid19 [Abstract]  
COVID-19

NOTE 10 – COVID-19

 

The ultimate impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic or a similar health epidemic is highly uncertain and subject to change. The Company does not yet know the full extent of potential delays or impacts on its business, its research and development activities, healthcare systems or the global economy as a whole. However, the effects could have a material impact on the Company's operations, liquidity and capital resources and the Company will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation closely.

 

In response to public health directives and orders, the Company has implemented work-from-home policies for its employees and temporarily modified its operations to comply with applicable social distancing recommendations. Similar health directives and orders are affecting third parties with whom the Company does business, including the third parties that the Company has contracted with to conduct studies for TARA-002. The effects of the orders and the Company's related adjustments in its business are likely to negatively impact productivity, disrupt the Company's business and delay its timelines, the magnitude of which will depend, in part, on the length and severity of the restrictions and other limitations on the Company's ability to conduct its business in the ordinary course.

 

Severe and/or long-term disruptions in the Company's operations will negatively impact its business, operating results and financial condition in other ways, as well. Specifically, the Company anticipates that the stress of COVID-19 on healthcare systems around the globe will negatively impact its ability to conduct clinical trials in the near term due primarily to the lack of resources at clinical trial sites and the resulting inability to enroll patients in the trials. The Company also anticipates that the global impact of COVID-19 will negatively impact its ability to conduct nonclinical studies due primarily to laboratory closures and limited availability of personnel. In addition, while the potential economic impact brought by, and the duration of, COVID-19 may be difficult to assess or predict, it has significantly disrupted global financial markets, and may limit the Company's ability to access capital, which could in the future negatively affect its liquidity. A recession or market correction resulting from the spread of COVID-19 could materially affect the Company's business and the value of its Common Stock.