An AMERICAN cruise ship passenger diagnosed with the killer coronavirus was reportedly rushed from an evacuation plane’s isolation box into a “high risk” unit.
Jeri Seratti-Goldman, who was evacuated from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, claims her husband is this sick patient on the US-bound flight.
Around a dozen Americans are quarantined in Nebraska after disembarking the plague ship docked in Japan this weekend, reports the Journal Star.
Jeri from California maintains her husband Carl Goldman developed symptoms on the plane and wasn’t able to walk when they landed.
The Santa Clarita resident described how they were flown to Nebraska with other “high-risk” passengers in a series of Facebook Live updates.
Carl reportedly presented with a high fever while onboard the evacuation flight before being diagnosed with the deadly virus.
Health officials confirmed a passenger was transported to the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s (UNMC) Biocontainment Patient Care Unit.
Authorities didn’t reveal much about the patient but said they developed fever and lightheadedness but had an underlying condition.
Jeri revealed that her sick husband has Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare autoimmune disorder that can result in paralysis.
Carl’s wife thinks this condition may have worsened his coronavirus symptoms.
Last week, it emerged there were around 300 passengers with the virus onboard the Diamond Princess.
All of the evacuees who landed in Omaha were asymptomatic; they will be monitored for two weeks by UNMC disease experts.
The Goldmans, who own KHTS radio station, were enjoying the Asian cruise with another couple for Jeri’s 60th birthday present.
Things took an unpleasant turn when the captain said a passenger who got off in Hong Kong had the virus.
On February 5, they docked in Yokohama, Japan, where passengers were quarantined for 14 days.
Confined to their room for 12 days, the Goldmans weren’t even allowed to enter their hallway.
The Goldmans posted about their coronavirus struggle on their KHTS website and on Facebook.
In one clip, Jeri said: “I think the reason I haven’t killed my husband yet is because our friends are here.”
She said they were tested before being evacuated from the plague ship in Japan but didn’t receive their results.
After 12 days, Jeri said they were told they would be on one of two US-bound flights for 14-day quarantine.
But she recalled her husband got a “very high fever” en route to Travis Air Force Base in California.
He was taken to an isolated section of the plane along with 14 others who were diagnosed.
Jeri said they were then deemed to be “high-risk” and flown to Eppley Airfield in Nebraska with 11 other people from two other emergency flights.
This is when he was taken to the bio-containment unit, according to Jeri, who will stay in her own isolated room for the next two weeks.
The California woman said they had been getting abuse online for boarding the plane to the US with the virus.
“[They say we] lied and that we knew we had the virus when we got on the plane,” Jeri said, describing the accusations as “total cr**.”
Jeri said they mistakenly thought they were in the clear when they got no results back.
From her isolated “dorm” room on Tuesday night, she said her husband felt like “a truck’s hit him.”
The separated couple are forced to communicate via social media while they are quarantined.
The news comes as it emerged coronavirus is actually “more contagious than Sars,” Chinese researchers say.
Authorities revealed there are currently 29 confirmed cases in the US as of Wednesday morning.
Globally, there have been 75,282 confirmed cases with over 2,000 virus-related deaths.
One American citizen died in Wuhan, the virus epicenter.
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