“It was the worst 2 weeks of my life”: Woman recovers from coronavirus with the help of hydroxychloroquine

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - An Amarillo woman who tested positive for COVID-19 is now considered recovered and is sharing her story in an effort to show others how serious the disease is.

"I was totally out of control, there's not anything I could do," said Laura Taylor. "It was the worst two weeks of my life, I'll just say that."

She recently traveled to Egypt. She says it was the trip of a lifetime, but her vacation was cut short due to the coronavirus.

It took her three days to get back home. She flew internationally from Cairo to New York and then to Amarillo.

She and 12 others who went on that trip took it upon themselves to self-quarantine.

After the doctor saw her flight plan, she was tested for COVID-19.

"Within a day, he called me back and said you've got it," she said. "And he said, 'they're about to do a news conference, you and one other are positive.'"

She said the doctor told her she was the first confirmed case in Amarillo. As she quarantined at home, her symptoms grew worse.

“I started getting a really bad headache,” said Taylor. “Then the headache went from a cough, to sore throat, to nausea, to really bad fatigue… real bad fatigue. It just continually, progressively got worse. [I also had] a low grade fever. The low grade fever was like 99 to 100 for about six days, and then day six was when it got really bad.”

It wasn’t until she was given hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat Malaria, that things started looking up.... (Read more)

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