Before her flight, Marisa took seven tests - which all came back negative. A little more than an hour into the flight, she started to feel a sore throat.
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After a woman tested positive for COVID-19 midflight, the bathroom became her seat for the next few hours.
Marisa Fotieo was on an Icelandair flight from Chicago to Reykjavik, Iceland, on December 19, en route to her final destination of Switzerland with her brother and father.
Before her flight, Marisa took seven tests - which all came back negative. A little more than an hour into the flight, she started to feel a sore throat.
Fotieo, who is fully vaccinated and has received the booster, is an early childhood teacher in Chicago. She tests consistently since she works with an unvaccinated population.
When she got her results in the airplane bathroom, over the Atlantic Ocean, she said she started to panic.
“The first flight attendant I ran into was Rocky. I was hysterical, I was crying,” Fotieo said.
“I was nervous for my family who I just had dinner with. I was nervous for the other people on the plane. I was nervous for myself.”
Ragnhildur Eiríksdóttir, or Rocky, the flight attendant Fotieo ran into, helped calm her down.
“Of course, it’s a stress factor when something like this comes up, but that’s part of our job,” Eiríksdóttir told CNN.
The flight attendant said she did what she could to try to rearrange seats so Fotieo could be seated in a spot alone, but the flight was full.
“When she came back and told me she couldn’t find enough seating, I opted to stay in the bathroom because I did not want to be around others on the flight,” Fotieo said.
A note was then put on the bathroom door saying it was out of service, and that was Fotieo’s new seat for the remainder of the flight.
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