The group was evacuated from Wuhan, China, in late January. They’ve now been released from the first quarantine the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered in more than 50 years.
The evacuees are currently being housed at March Air Reserve Base in California – and the quarantine order comes after one of them tried to leave the base.
A woman who had recently traveled to China gave the respiratory virus to her husband when she returned to Chicago, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said.
Niels Hogel admitted giving drugs to patients so he could try to resuscitate them. After initially being accused in a handful of deaths, he was discovered to have been involved in dozens more.