From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.

I'm Al Etten.

It started here in California, the San Francisco and the Bay Area ordering people to shelter

in place.

And as the coronavirus spreads, state after state has ordered non-essential businesses to close

and people to stay at home.

The New York's governor calls it putting the state on pause, and the Anna says he's

asking Hoosiers to hunker down.

As of March 25th, more than 100 million Americans were ordered to stay at home.

Today, we're looking at people in the most extreme form of isolation, quarantine, and

whether the current recommendation of 14 days is enough to stop the virus from spreading.

Alexandra Trinkoff lives on Long Island in New York.

And for her, alarms went off a month ago, long before America's cities started going

into lockdown.

So my son is a junior at Emmer's College, and he was spending a semester abroad and a

program in Rome.

Her son's name is Zach, and he was having a great time in Italy, but all around him,

the country was in crisis.

Every shop and business in this country shut down, including a high-tech restaurant.

And each day, the news was getting worse.

So essentially, it was a kind of perfect store that wasn't taken.

By the end of the first week of March, we really wanted him to come home at that point.

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