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Hello, this is Carl. Hey, Carl. This is Sean calling from Today Explained.

Hi. Carl, where are you right now? I am in a quarantine facility at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha.

I do have the coronavirus. I've tested positive for it. I've now been in this facility for 16 days

and last test came out positive, so I still have the virus. It's 98.7.

Sorry. Is that your temperature? That was my temperature. No fever. That doesn't sound terrible.

I'm sorry. What? No. None. Just the cough. Excuse me. On the what? Oh, cough. My cough's probably a two

on a one to five. It gets worse in the afternoon. There you go. You hurt that real time.

Carl, tell me how this story starts. Where did this journey begin for you?

For Christmas and my wife's birthday, which falls right around Christmas, I gave her a present of a trip

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