'This is real, guys,' Dean told News4Jax.

(PolitiFact was unable to reach Dean directly.) Dean’s voice in the TV interview showed she was still sick, but she said she felt better after the treatment. I couldn’t stand at all.' She told News4Jax that the staff at the library were excellent and scrambled to get wheelchairs. An emergency room doctor had advised her to get the monoclonal antibody treatment.ĭean described herself as in 'very bad shape, light-headed, dizzy, shortness of breath. Later, clinic staff put the two women into wheelchairs.Ĭity and state officials sent us a TV news report by News4Jax, which included an interview with Toma Dean, the woman lying face down on the floor.ĭean, of Fleming Island, told News4Jax, that she was not vaccinated, and said that she had been suffering with COVID-19 and pneumonia for two weeks. Lopez said he didn’t time the events precisely, but estimated the women were on the floor for about an hour. They brought one of those paper gowns and covered her up. He said the woman in the yellow dress 'was in the worst shape - she was moaning and in pain, and it was freezing in there. He said that while he was waiting in line for his appointment, other people arrived including the two women in the photo. Lopez told PolitiFact he saw only a couple of chairs at the appointment site. Lopez said his physician advised him to take Regeneron, so he signed up for an appointment. But about a week ago he came down with symptoms of nasal congestion and a headache and then tested positive for COVID-19. Louie Lopez, who took the photo, told PolitiFact that he was vaccinated in the spring. Once the city realized the increase in patients seeking treatment, the city made sure the clinic had adequate supplies, including more wheelchairs, seats for patients waiting in line and signs directing patients to alert someone if they need assistance. 16, that rose in the following days to 97, 143 and 155. Nikki Kimbleton, a spokesperson for the city of Jacksonville, said in a written statement to PolitiFact that the volume of patients seeking the treatment more than doubled in recent days at the Jacksonville clinic, which is located at a public library.

The photo was taken at one of multiple state-supported sites that opened in August to provide monoclonal antibody treatments that help COVID-19 patients avoid hospitalization or death. Photo was taken at Jacksonville Regeneron site

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