I smell BS. Man with coronavirus says drug used to treat malaria 'saved my life'
OS ANGELES — Rio Giardinieri, 52, vice-president of a company that manufactures cooking equipment at high-end restaurants in Los Angeles and around the world, thinks he contracted COVID-19 at a conference in New York. He had a fever for five days, horrendous back pain, headache, cough, and tiredness. He was sleeping about 15 hours a day, when he’s used to getting five hours a night.
He said his doctors did not want to see him, so he drove to Joe DiMaggio Hospital in South Florida, near his home, and nearly passed out waiting to get tested.
Doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and coronavirus. They put him on oxygen in the ICU, but he said he was still unable to breathe. After more than a week, he said doctors told him there was really nothing more they could do. On Friday evening, March 20, he said goodbye to his wife and three children.
“I was at the point where I was barely able to speak, and breathing was very challenging,” he said. “I really thought my end was there. I had been through nine days of solid pain and for me, the end was there, so I made some calls to say, in my own way, goodbye to my friends and family.”
A dear friend immediately sent him a recent article about hydroxychloroquine, an old anti-malaria medicine proven successful to treat COVID-19 patients overseas, and insisted he take the drug.
Giardinieri reached out to an infectious disease doctor.
“He gave me all the reasons why I would probably not want to try it because there are no trials,” said Giardinieri. “There’s no testing. It was not something that was approved, and I said, ‘Look, I don’t know if I’m going to make it until the morning,’ because at that point, I really thought I was coming to the end because I couldn’t breathe anymore. He agreed, and authorized the use of it, and 30 minutes later, the nurse gave it to me.”
Giardinieri described what happened next. An hour after an IV with the medicine, he said his heart felt like it was beating out of his chest.
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I for one will not be partaking in that med.
with a huge rock of salt. Individual experiences are pretty meaningless in a pandemic affecting millions world wide.
