A brief of what happened to this woman in the story is that after she and her husband took Paxlovid to treat Covid, then became postive and sick again, sicker.
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"But Blakeney was far sicker when her symptoms returned. She had a high fever, a rapid heart rate and a "really awful" cough. She says her breathing was very wheezy.
"I ended up going to the emergency room," she said. Her case stumped the ER doctors, who wondered how this could happen after Paxlovid.
"They were like, 'we've never heard of this,' " Blakeney said.
After running tests to make sure she didn't have blood clots or pneumonia, they prescribed an inhaled medication called albuterol to help her lungs and an antibiotic to treat what they thought must be a secondary bacterial infection.
Blakeney did get better after taking those medications. She's now mostly recovered, though her cough has lingered."
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