SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Impacts on NASA Ground Operations to Protect ISS Astronauts.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
; 8(10): 3247-3250, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-779133
ABSTRACT
NASA implements required medical tests and clinical monitoring to ensure the health and safety of its astronauts. These measures include a pre-launch quarantine to mitigate the risk of infectious diseases. During space missions, most astronauts experience perturbations to their immune system that manifest as a detectable secondary immunodeficiency. On return to Earth, after the stress of re-entry and landing, astronauts would be most vulnerable to infectious disease. In April 2020, a crew returned from International Space Station to NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Post-flight quarantine protocols (both crew and contacts) were enhanced to protect this crew from SARS-CoV-2. In addition, specific additional clinical monitoring was performed to determine post-flight immunocompetence. Given that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prognosis is more severe for the immunocompromised, a countermeasures protocol for spaceflight suggested by an international team of scientists could benefit terrestrial patients with secondary immunodeficiency.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Space Flight
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Stress, Physiological
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Quarantine
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Immunocompromised Host
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Coronavirus Infections
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Astronauts
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Traditional medicine
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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