A professor from Michigan passed five hours locked in the bathroom of the plane in which he was traveling from Chicago to Reykjavik after find out you had COVID-19 with a test that was done in flight.
The woman, Marisa Fotieo, has confirmed to ‘NBC News’ that decided to isolate himself in the bathroom so as not to endanger the rest of the passengers of the plane, of the Icelandair company, in which he flew on December 20.
The video he recorded with his mobile for TikTok from “her VIP quarantine place”, as she herself described it in the aforementioned social network, it has gone viral and it has already been reproduced more than three million times.
Fotieo has told the US network that during the flight his throat started to hurt and decided to use one of the quick tests that he carried with him for the trip. “I took her to the bathroom and in what seemed like two seconds two lines appeared [positivo]”, has explained.
Given the positive result of the test, he decided to isolate himself so as not to infect the other people on board – about 150, according to his story – and managed to stay inside the bathroom with the help of a stewardess, Ragnhildur “Rocky” Eiríksdóttir. “He made sure that I had everything I needed in the next five hours, from food to drink, and he was constantly interested in my condition and assured me that I was going to be fine,” said the young woman.
When he finally reached the Icelandic capital, Fotieo she was quarantined in a hotel operated by the Red Cross, where he spent Christmas. The stewardess who helped him during the flight kept in touch with her through social media and even sent her flowers and a small Christmas tree so that she would not lose the Christmas spirit during her isolation.
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