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Torrance Doctor Recovers From Coronavirus, Credits Z-Pack/Zinc/Hydroxychloroquine Treatments
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Dr. Shahinaz Soliman has been a Torrance family physician for 22 years. But in early March, she became a
coronavirus patient.
She believes she may have been infected by one of her patients during a physical exam. He did not know he was infected at the time but he did tell her he had attended a birthday party in the South Bay where several guests later tested positive.
Soon, he tested positive, and so did Dr. Soliman.
“I felt helpless, I felt like a patient, and it’s a totally different feeling when you’re not coming into the room to treat someone, when you need the help from others,” Soliman said.
When her coughing got worse and the fever wouldn’t go away, Dr. Soliman was admitted to Torrance Memorial Hospital. She allowed nurses to record video to help other medical staff distinguish and identify the deep, intense, chronic COVID-19 cough.
“You’re in complete isolation,” she said. “You hear the room beside you, they got intubated, or the room beside you coded, or someone in isolation passed away by the themself. So it was quite like, there’s a lot of fear.”
Fortunately, Soliman did not have to be put on a ventilator. She responded to her treatment which included azithromycin, zinc supplements and hydroxychloroquine – an anti-malarial drug some doctors have prescribed for COVID-19 patients.
