Jeffrey Carroll had fears everyone was going to be pulled off the plane, and he wasn’t going to be able to make it out of Italy.
Upon arriving at the Milan airport in Italy, where the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on its population moreso than it did China, Carroll was met with a man who checked his temperature and stuck something in his ear before allowing him in. Carroll was trying to go home to Texas.
Carroll, a former OSU basketball player, was in his first season with Bergamo Basket 2014. Bergamo is a city northeast of Milan that Business Insider called the “worst-hit city in Italy’s coronavirus crisis.