Coronavirus Patient Recovering in Quarantine Facility Describes Symptoms

U.S. passengers who were evacuated from the quarantined cruise ship the Diamond Princess and officials wait for the takeoff of a Kalitta Air airplane bound for the United States at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 17, 2020. Cheryl and Paul Molesky via AP

Coronavirus patient Carl Goldman, one of the American evacuees who was on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and tested positive, described what the virus is like in an interview from his hospital bed.

Goldman, while speaking from a quarantined area in the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, told Fox News on Tuesday that he suffers from an underlying health problem and was taken to a special unit.