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    Life In Quarantine: What It's Like For The U.S. Evacuees From Wuhan

    Hundreds of American travelers returned from Wuhan, China and are now under federal quarantine for two weeks. Some are happy to be home, but wish they weren't confined in military bases.
    by Rob Stein Feb 06, 2020 3 minutes
    Chunlin Leonhard, is under quarantine at the Travis Air Force Base. She and others under quarantine are housed on base and where they receive delivered meals three times a day.

    Chunlin Leonhard is grateful to be back in the United States, even though she's now living under the first federally mandated quarantine in 50 years. "The primary feeling is a sense of relief that I'm back in the States," she says. "I'm just tired and glad and grateful."

    Leonhard, a 55-year-old professor at Loyola University of the New Orleans College of Law, arrived at the Travis Air Force base in California on Wednesday as part of a state department evacuation of Americans who were in Wuhan, China,

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