Life after Covid-19, explained by Carl (who had it)
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming up on five months since much of the country shut down to contain COVID-19, |
| 0:16.6 | and I think it's fair to say the country hasn't been the same since. |
| 0:20.5 | But today on the show, we want to find out how people who have had COVID are doing those |
| 0:25.7 | who have survived. |
| 0:27.2 | It was about five months ago, I spoke to Carl who got COVID on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. |
| 0:32.5 | I spoke to him again last night. |
| 0:34.9 | Hello, Carl. |
| 0:35.9 | Hey, Sean, how are you doing? |
| 0:37.8 | Doing well, but it looks like you might be back in the hospital? |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, I'm back in the hospital, but I'm okay. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm glad to hear that. |
| 0:47.1 | The last time we spoke, you were at a quarantine facility in Omaha, Nebraska, and this was, |
| 0:54.8 | I believe, early March. |
| 0:56.2 | Does that sound right to you? |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, I ended up being there for 29 days, climbing the walls to get out of there. |
| 1:03.0 | Substage? |
| 1:04.0 | Okay, so 29 days in a quarantine facility, what happened over the course of those 29 days? |
| 1:10.0 | Why did it take so long to get out? |
| 1:11.9 | They don't know. |
| 1:12.9 | Right now, the CDC back then said I had to have two negative results, and it just took |
| 1:19.4 | that long. |
| 1:20.4 | The doctor kept handing the results on a post-it note. |
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