Lopez has been sick with Covid-19 for well over a week with symptoms including swollen glands and a runny nose. When a persistent migraine worsened, he signed up for an appointment to get a monoclonal antibody treatment that he and many other Floridians have been hearing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tout in recent days.

“Don’t wait till you need to be hospitalized,” DeSantis said on Wednesday while visiting a facility in West Palm Beach. “Do it early, go in and people do good and obviously keep out of the hospital, but it resolves the symptoms for a lot of people very quickly to where they feel a lot better and they maybe they were not at a hospital-level initially, but they felt symptoms, this has a great opportunity to really resolve it and I think resolve it in a good fashion.”…

One woman in line was so sick that she couldn’t even stand, Lopez said. Because she couldn’t stand, he said she crawled over to the wall. Staff members provided some patients with paper gowns because it was cold. One person, Lopez said, was given a wheelchair because they couldn’t move.

“It really made it really clear and the severity of it,” Lopez said. “Not only that, but the seriousness of it.”