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An email from the Department of State Treasurer's chief of staff Chris Farr to staff regarding the diagnosis of Treasurer Dale Folwell with COVID-19 and protocol for the department.

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Department of State Treasurer Email

An email from the Department of State Treasurer's chief of staff Chris Farr to staff regarding the diagnosis of Treasurer Dale Folwell with COVID-19 and protocol for the department.

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Sánchez-Guerra, Aaron <asanchezguerra@newsobserver.

com>

Fwd: Urgent message


Max Awarness <dstproblems@gmail.com> Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:01 PM
To: "Sánchez-Guerra, Aaron" <asanchezguerra@newsobserver.com>

From: Chris Farr <Chris.Farr@nctreasurer.com>


Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 2:20 PM
To: NCDST- ALL USERS <NCDST.ALLUSERS@nctreasurer.com>
Subject: Urgent message

Good afternoon to all. As the weeks have passed with this serious health concern confronting us, I suspected
this time would come. I learned this morning that DST has had an employee test positive for COVID-19. That
employee was Treasurer Folwell, and he was last on-site on Wednesday, March 18, after being out of the office
most of the prior week.

We have been in contact with Wake County Health Department and DHHS to ensure we give you the most
accurate instruction. The Wake County COVID-19 line is 919-856-7044. Their instructions to us were the
following:

We ask your employees to self-monitor for symptoms; isolate from others as much as you can.
Employees may discontinue isolation and return to normal activities when it has been at least 7
days since their first day of illness AND they have been without fever for three days (72 hours)
and their other symptoms are improving, in consultation with their healthcare providers and state
and local health departments. If you experience severe symptoms—shortness of breath, blue
lips, and chest pain or pressure and confusion please call for emergency services.

To add further clarity to the above instruction, all DST employees should self-monitor for symptoms
described above. Anyone who believes they have had close contact with the Treasurer may
decide to self-quarantine. We will do our best to send more specific information as we receive it.

If you are in the building today, you should go home as soon as you’re able. Take work if you have
the ability to work from home.

We had already begun extra sanitizing in the building, but given this new information I am authorizing a
complete sanitization of our building by an authorized vendor as soon as possible, most likely beginning
later today. For those who are still on-site, please leave your doors unlocked and remove all
necessary items when you leave. For those who have been off-site, your doors will be unlocked to
ensure a thorough cleaning.

We will update the hotline in the morning. If the sanitization is finished, you will be allowed back in the
building to get needed equipment and supplies.
For those employees who can work from home, they should work from home until further notice. Keep track of
your hours and more information will come about reporting timekeeping and leave. For those who are unable to
work from home, more specific information will be forthcoming. I will continue to send email communications as
needed. OSHR has informed us that your state ID badge is sufficient in identifying your role as mandatory during
county and municipality stay-at-home orders. For those who must enter the building in upcoming days, carry
your badge. HR will also provide an official letter to those who must work in the building continuously or visit the
building intermittently.

Please watch for further communications from your Division leaders, Human Resources, and me. We really
value all the hard work that has gone into responding to these conditions, and we are as ready as we can be to
continue serving all those who rely on us.

Much more information to come.

Regarding COVID-19, the best and most accurate resources for information continues to be:
https://www.ncdhhs.gov/

Finally, the Treasurer wanted me to pass along his concerns and to be transparent he wanted you all to know
that the employee who tested positive was him. He is recovering from home and we will hear more from him
later.

Chris Marie Farr 3200 Atlantic Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27604


Chief of Staff/ Chief Deputy Treasurer www.NCTreasurer.com
Office of the State Treasurer Twitter logo - Twitter.com/NCTreasurer
Office: (919) 814-3817 Facebook logo - Facebook.com/NCDST

Cell: (919) 588-0009 Sign up for e-Updates

E-mail correspondence to and from this address is subject to North Carolina's Public Records Act, N.C. Gen.
Stat. Sec. 132, and may be disclosed to third parties. However Federal and State law protects personal health
and other information that may be contained in this e-mail from unauthorized disclosure. If you are not the
intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and any accompanying documents and contact the sender
immediately. Unauthorized disclosure, copying or distribution of any confidential or privileged content of this e-
mail is prohibited.
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