Here's how you're transported between hospitals if you're a Nebraska coronavirus patient - New York Post

A chilling photograph shows the extreme measures taken to safely transport Nebraska’s first corona­virus case — an Omaha woman who may have contracted the virus on a recent trip to the UK.

The woman, 36, had been treated for mild symptoms at an Omaha hospital until Friday. Then her infection took a turn for the worse, officials told Omaha.com.

She was transported for more specialized treatment to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, also in Omaha — secured inside what’s known as an “isolation pod” and handled only by “moon-suit” medical workers.

The woman is currently being treated for acute respiratory distress syndrome at UNMC’s Biocontainment Unit.

The world-renowned, 10-bed unit is designed to safely treat deadly infectious diseases while protecting its highly trained staff and the public from contamination.

The unit has only one other patient — a coronavirus patient from the Diamond Princess cruise line, officials said.

In 2015, the unit successfully treated an Ebola patient, Rick Sacra, a doctor who was working in a maternity ward in Liberia during the height of that epidemic.

The infected woman admitted this week had traveled with her father to England, where she began experiencing symptoms.

She returned from the nine-day trip on Feb. 27 and went to the emergency room at Omaha’s Methodist Hospital on Thursday.

She was tested for coronavirus on Friday, and moved Friday night, officials said.

Epidemiologists are now scrambling to trace with whom she may have come in contact, including basketball players at an area Special Olympics tourney, patrons at an Omaha VFW, and more than 30 health care workers at her first hospital.

“We have to take it seriously,” Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert told Omaha.com. “But that does not mean the entire city will be shut down. We just have to be smart about it.”

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