Slawomir Michalak, a 57-year-old manufacturing facility employee from a suburb west of Chicago, was among the many members within the Chicago research. One in all his daughters began feeling ailing in late March and was later identified with delicate Covid-19. Michalak, in contrast, got here down with a excessive fever and reported shortness of breath and extreme ache in his again.

“It felt like someone was punching me in the lungs,” he advised STAT. 

At his spouse’s urging, Michalak went to the College of Chicago Drugs hospital on Friday, April 3. His fever had spiked to 104 and he was struggling to breath. On the hospital, he was given supplemental oxygen. He additionally agreed to take part in Gilead’s extreme Covid-19 medical trial.