Florida Man Believes Hydroxychloroquine Saved him from Certain Death from the Wuhan Virus

From Yahoo News:

According to the account Giardinieri provided to Yahoo News, doctors never told him his diagnosis of the coronavirus compounded with pneumonia would be fatal, but by Friday he’d become convinced that he was unlikely to survive.

“It was my feeling based on how it was progressing, how my heart was doing, how my breathing was doing. It was getting shallower and shallower by the day,” Giardinieri said. So he began reaching out to family and friends to say goodbye. One friend responded with a text urging him to ask his doctor for hydroxychloroquine, which he’d heard about on “The Ingraham Angle.” Fox News host Laura Ingraham has talked about the Trump-endorsed medication multiple times on her show since last week, even saying that she’d “happily volunteer” to test the drug as a treatment for the coronavirus.

Giardinieri said he asked a nurse about the medication, who then relayed his request to the doctor. Though the physician informed Giardinieri that he could not provide him with the drug, he put him in touch with an infectious disease doctor who, after speaking to Giardinieri on the phone, agreed to authorize the use of hydroxychloroquine. Thirty minutes later, Giardinieri said, a nurse was giving him his first dose in pill form.

The next morning, he says, he woke up completely symptom-free.