There’s no place like home. And that’s what more than 200 Americans are probably saying today after being released from quarantine at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
They were the U.S. citizens who were in China when the coronavirus outbreak broke out.They were among the first to be able to get onto a plane and were flown to San Diego as an evacuation of Americans got underway early this month.
But they had to endure two weeks on the Marine base not able to go anywhere but where they were…as each day of the 14 days went by…the time required for health officials to determine if they had, or would get, the coronavirus that started in Wuhan China.
Only two of them ended up getting the virus and that person was released this week after being treated and declared free of the virus. The other person is still at the U-C San Diego Medical Center at last report but was expected to be released soon as well.
It couldn’t have been easy to be cooped up on a Marine base, far away from wherever you live, probably worrying at least a little bit about whether they were going to get the virus.
One of the evacuees was quoted as saying it actually was exciting, saying that he was happy the way they all were treated and cared for during those two weeks in quarantine.
And all of them are now pretty happy it’s over and they’re back home, at home, in the U.S.
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