[Exports_project_office] post meeting comments about the walkies during quarantine

[Craig M. Lee]

Hi All,

Joanna, my wife, works for the Fed Hutch Cancer Research Center, which has been very active in COVID research and in guiding public health response. She receives weekly briefings on the state of the science, as well as email updates, and forwarded the attached tonight. This update focuses on Tavel-related risk. There’s support (albeit from modeling studies) for our 14-day quarantine times. Ten days with testing is also good, but maybe not good enough for situations where the next action is to place people in a remote, aggregate living situation - thus the longer times. 

There’s increasing evidence (though I do not have citations at hand) the transmission via surfaces is not as large a risk as previously believed. Not sure the findings are so solid that we’d let down our guard, but it might impact how we think about room-to-room transfers during quarantine.

With respect to outdoor exercise, while I appreciated the comments Ivona shared, I strongly believe the this is safe *provided* that the team adheres to the protocols, and the benefits to mental and emotional well-being should not be discounted.

As much as I want to be outside on the first day, I’m leaning toward Ivona’s recommendation that we delay for testing. We should discuss whether this means 2 or 5 days.

Thanks,
Craig



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> On Apr 8, 2021, at 7:04 PM, Ivona Cetinic via Exports_project_office <exports_project_office at espo.nasa.gov> wrote:
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> This was from previous week - taken out of the rest of the comment:
>  I also have a note in case the PO needs it from my Dr. with her desire for me to be able to walk to continue healing
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> After the meeting
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> THANK YOU for working on getting us outside time - I will take advantage of every minute of it and be so grateful!!!!!!!!! <3
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> (private comment to me that I am not copying here)
> That said, I am pretty concerned about people being able to leave quarantine. I get it, we all want to be outside. But it seems like a tremendous risk to the program. Two weeks just isn't that long considering how big this program is and how much is riding on it. 
> Similar to the questions of passing materials between rooms. If equipment has to quarantine for 3 days why should we be able to pass items between rooms? 
> Jesus, plan ahead people! And don't be so spoiled. Listening to all these demands for special favors and treatment (which adds so much stress to your plate) feels really whiny and privileged. 
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> Feel like the time outside is a nice gesture but really goes against everything we are trying to accomplish and a risk I am not sure it worth taking.  2 weeks is not that long.
> Just feel supported if you want to refuse this request.
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