Disembarkation of the Coral Princess at Port Miami began Saturday and is likely to span several days.
"Get us off this ship, so we can get home and let them deal with these sick people," Alan Podrid, 70, of Marietta, Georgia, told USA TODAY over the phone Monday.
Three passengers from the cruise died, and USA TODAY reached out to Princess Cruises for updates on the status of the disembarkation and health of the passengers still onboard. Hutton said he had a medical condition that is getting worse since he was unable to get home for scheduled spinal surgery. He said the pain was manageable in one leg when his doctor cleared him to take the cruise. But unable to return home for the surgery slated March 25, he said the pain has spread to his other leg, making walking difficult.
"I didn't feel that the cruise line had been truthful with us. We had left Buenos Aires and had been sailing for a week or 10 days, and then they decided to notify us of possible coronavirus onboard. They kept telling us that everybody was healthy," Podrid said."When they told us that two people had passed away, everybody was really saddened, surprised and concerned. I don't think people realized how this virus was transmitted, that people could be asymptomatic.
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