Hi,
We just learned that one of the NBER staff working at the main office in Cambridge tested positive for COVID-19 today, Wednesday April 20. This staff member developed symptoms last night, Tuesday, April 19. According to the CDC, an infected person can transmit the virus that causes COVID-19 as much as 48 hours before they have symptoms or before they were tested for asymptomatic cases.
Under current CDC definitions, you were not a close contact (
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/determine-close-contacts.html) of the infected individual, since they were not in close contact with anyone within a two day window of the onset of symptoms, but I thought you would nevertheless want to know of this development.
Please call your health care provider or your local board of health with any questions. You can also find information on COVID-19, including symptoms, treatment, and a quarantine and isolation calculator on the CDC website at
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html. If you have additional questions please feel free to contact me at birnbaum_at_nber.org.
Thanks,
Diane
Diane Birnbaum
NBER Human Resources Administrator
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138-5398
phone: 617.588.1484
birnbaum_at_nber.org
http://www.nber.org/
*Please note the NBER offices remain closed but I will receive any voice mail left at this number by email.
Received on Thu Apr 21 2022 - 09:59:59 EDT
