Nurse Stranded in Mexico After Testing Positive Despite Vaccination

Nurse practitioner Diane Schmidt was on a well-deserved vacation following a year of helping patients in the pandemic and thought she was clear to travel since she was fully vaccinated. She and her daughter flew to Mexico with two other mother-daughter duos, but after a couple days, she started feeling a bit sick. CDC guidelines require Americans who’ve left the country to test negative for COVID-19 before re-entering, and Diane was shocked when she was positive. Now she’s stuck alone in Mexico.