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Tests, doctors in hazmat suits, lots of Gatorade: A report from inside a coronavirus quarantine

Carl Goldman has been in isolation for a dozen days and doesn’t yet know when he’ll be allowed to go home.

For a dozen days, Carl Goldman’s world was reduced to a 20- by 30-foot containment room, and his only visitors came bearing coronavirus testing kits and bottles of Gatorade while dressed head to toe in hazmat suits.

Goldman contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, and while he’s now in lower-level housing at the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit in Omaha, he remains quarantined.