two weeks ago alone in her quiet Fairfield home, wincing through the stabbing pains in her stomach, lungs and heart. For the last year and a half, she’s spent most of her nights like this. This is how COVID-19 has left her. She says that her March 2020 diagnosis felt like a death sentence. Especially since she was the first COVID patient at Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital and third in Butler County, according to Mercy Health spokesperson Nanette Bentley. Wood survived a two-week hospitalization and a round of Hydroxychloroquine, an immunosuppressive drug touted by then-President Trump and since shown to have no antiviral effects on COVID-19.