MORE “ANTECDOTAL” Evidence HYDROXYCHLORONIQUE - FL man says it saved his life

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Rio Giardinieri, 52, told Los Angeles’ Fox 11 that he struggled with horrendous back pain, headaches, cough and fatigue for five days after catching COVID-19, possibly at a conference in New York.

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octors at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida diagnosed him with the coronavirus and pneumonia and put him on oxygen in the ICU, he told the outlet. After more than a week, doctors told him there was nothing more they could do and, on Friday evening, Giardinieri said goodbye to his wife and three children

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Then a friend sent him a recent article about, hydroxychloroquine a prescription drug that’s been used to treat malaria for decades and auto-immune diseases like lupus.

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After about an hour on an IV with the medicine, Giardinieri said, it felt like his heart was beating out of his chest and, about two hours later, he had another episode where he couldn’t breathe.

He says he was given Benadryl and some other drugs and that when he woke up around 4:45 a.m., it was “like nothing ever happened.” He’s since had no fever or pain and can breathe again.

said doctors believe the episodes he experienced were not a reaction to the medicine but his body fighting off the virus.

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