{"id":103981,"date":"2020-03-19T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/what-quarantine-is-like-for-an-astronaut"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:03:47","slug":"what-quarantine-is-like-for-an-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/what-quarantine-is-like-for-an-astronaut","title":{"rendered":"What quarantine is like for an astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-quarantine-is-like-for-an-astronaut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People around the world are currently isolating themselves or in a formal quarantine to prevent the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/topics\/live\/coronavirus-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus<\/a>. But for decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/apollo-11-astronauts-quarantined-after-splashdown.html\" target=\"_blank\">astronauts have been quarantined<\/a> to ensure that they were virus-free and ready to fly (or, in the case of Apollo, to make sure they didn\u2019t bring home any \u201cmoon bugs.\u201d) <\/p>\n<p>This quarantine period \u201censures that they aren\u2019t sick or incubating an illness when they get to the space station,\u201d NASA spokesperson Brandi Dean told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People around the world are currently isolating themselves or in a formal quarantine to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. But for decades, astronauts have been quarantined to ensure that they were virus-free and ready to fly (or, in the case of Apollo, to make sure they didn\u2019t bring home any \u201cmoon bugs.\u201d) This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}