Halfway Through U.S. Quarantines, Two Women Describe 'Surreal,' Lonely Waits
A New Orleans law professor and a New Jersey financial analyst are waiting for their stints in the first federal quarantine in a half-century to end. Here's glimpse of their daily lives.
Chunlin Leonhard spends most of her time alone in her room at a hotel at the Travis Air Force Base in California, anxiously reading the latest news about the coronavirus outbreak in China.
"I'm doing about as well as can be hoped for under the circumstances," Leonhard, 55, a New Orleans law professor, says during an interview over Skype.
Leonhard is one of more than 800 Americans who have been evacuated from the epicenter of the outbreak in China and put under two-week quarantines at U.S. military bases in the nation's first federal quarantine in.
