Imo (and free advice is best left unheeded): Better that you miss out on this opportunity and get to keep your IP and try again than risk you and your employees contracting a severe respritory illness.

People will understand disruptions due to Covid. It's not business as normal. Google told the entire north american staff to stay home. Be glad that you can still all be relatively productive while remote, and enjoy your runway while you don't have to pay for the lights in your offices.