{"id":98452,"date":"2021-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=98452"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:46:22","slug":"2020-the-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/05\/25\/2020-the-front-line\/","title":{"rendered":"2020: The Front Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"panel panel--short story-intro\">\n\t<div class=\"panel__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"panel__header\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"panel__intro panel__intro--alt\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t\tAnswering the Nation&#039;s Call\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong><span class=\"first-character\">W<\/span>hen<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t the United States government called upon UNMC and Nebraska Medicine to help American citizens during the pandemic, they responded\u2013just as they did in 2014 when they cared for patients with Ebola in the National Biocontainment Unit. This time, the med center helped monitor \u2013 at Camp Ashland \u2013 57 Americans who had been working in the Wuhan area of China, where the virus was first reported.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"panel__sidebar\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"h5\">Share<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"panel__social\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=2020%3A%20The%20Front%20Line&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unmc.edu%2Fnewsroom%2F2021%2F05%2F25%2F2020-the-front-line%2F\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"share on twitter, opens in a new window\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">twitter<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"svg svg--twitter \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg width=\"1200\" height=\"1227\" viewBox=\"0 0 1200 1227\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M714.163 519.284L1160.89 0H1055.03L667.137 450.887L357.328 0H0L468.492 681.821L0 1226.37H105.866L515.491 750.218L842.672 1226.37H1200L714.137 519.284H714.163ZM569.165 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proud to be a Nebraskan and to be an American.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"quote-attribution\">Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"panel panel--short image-group\">\n\t<div class=\"panel__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"panel__img__group panel__img__group--full\">\n\t\t\t\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frontline2.jpg\" alt=\"Feb. 6 press conference about the coronavirus\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"panel__main panel__center\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"feature__caption feature__caption--line\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOn Feb. 6, media crowded into a room inside the Fred &amp; Pamela Buffett Cancer Center to learn more about the local response to the coronavirus. From left to right, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD; Eric Kasowski, MD, quarantine Ashland team lead, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac, adjutant general Nebraska National Guard; James Lawler, MD, executive director, International Programs and Innovation, Global Center for Health Security, UNMC; Shelly Schwedhelm, executive director, Emergency Management and Biopreparedness, Nebraska Medicine; and Capt. Dana Hall, regional administrator, U.S. Department of Health &amp; Human Services.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"inset medium-text\">\n\t\t<div class=\"inset__container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"text-md \">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<p>Soon afterward, the med center treated its first cases of COVID-19 when 13 passengers on the Diamond Princess (docked off the coast of Japan) were sent to Omaha\u2019s National Quarantine Unit. UNMC\u2019s James Lawler, MD, accompanied the group after having traveled to Japan to both provide infectious disease expertise to the disaster medical assistance team and help evaluate and evacuate the 400 Americans on board the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once in Omaha, 11 of the 13 passengers tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, two additional passengers arrived in Omaha, bringing the total monitored at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine to 15.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"panel panel--short image-group\">\n\t<div class=\"panel__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"panel__img__group panel__img__group--fill\">\n\t\t\t\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frontline3.jpg\" alt=\"Americans arrive from China for monitoring at Camp Ashland\" \/>\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frontline4.jpg\" alt=\"The UNMC team observes the arrival of Americans from China\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"panel__main panel__center\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"feature__caption feature__caption--line\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAt left: The first group of 57 Americans to arrive from China for monitoring at Camp Ashland. Faces of the 57 were intentionally blurred to protect their privacy. At right: The group was observed by members of the UNMC and Nebraska Medicine team involved in the logistics of the mission.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"inset medium-text\">\n\t\t<div class=\"inset__container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"text-md inset--last\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<p>When Jeri Seratti-Goldman of Santa Clarita Valley, California, left quarantine in early March she said: \u201cThis place is special, and you should be very proud.\u201d Seratti-Goldman tested negative throughout her quarantine process; her husband, Carl, tested positive and wasn\u2019t released until mid-March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late February, UNMC launched the first clinical trial in the United States to evaluate an experimental treatment for COVID-19.The randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of the investigational antiviral remdesivir in hospitalized adults diagnosed with COVID-19.The first<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>trial participant? 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