The five-week transatlantic cruise started as what Jake Rosmarin described as “one of the most amazing trips of my life.” It ended with him scared, traumatized, and quarantined for six weeks in a medical facility in Nebraska.
“I think over time I’m going to learn to love to travel again, it’s just going to be a little hard,” the travel content creator told HuffPost on Wednesday from his sealed room inside the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The specialized facility has housed Ebola patients, some of the country’s earliest known COVID-19 cases, and now 15 former passengers of a ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that’s killed three people.
But Rosmarin, who was one of more than 140 passengers and crew on that vessel, said it’s not all bad.
“I’m in good spirits. I feel good, I have no symptoms. I have my daily temperature checked,” he said of his current care and improved morale since disembarking the ship, which in its final days became marooned off the coast of Africa amid fear of the virus spreading.
