On today’s episode, we have an eye-opening conversation with Carl Goldman, one of the very first Americans to contract COVID-19 while on the Diamond Princess cruise ship while on vacation outside of Japan in February 2020. Carl talks about his unexpected journey of quarantine on the ship and then being the first ever COVID patient placed in Omaha, Nebraska's biocontainment unit originally built for Anthrax. He gives the real story behind the media frenzy surrounding him and his wife who miraculously never tested positive for the virus.

On top of the typical symptoms of a fairly mild case of COVID, Carl experienced far more serious health effects, partially due to an autoimmune precondition he had developed from the shingles vaccine, which left him paralyzed in his hands and feet.

Carl and his wife Jeri, also owners ...