Sick COVID patients lie on floor at antibody treatment site in Florida

Florida authorities insist the sites, touted by the governor, are not overrun.

The city of Jacksonville scrambled this week to increase the number of wheelchairs at state-run sites providing Regeneron, the monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, after a photo showing a patient lying on the ground at one location. The city disclosed the effort when asked about a photo taken Wednesday at the site at the city's public library, which showed a woman, face down on the ground, as she awaited treatment. Louie Lopez, who took the photo on Wednesday, told ABC News that the woman in the foreground, and another person pictured lying down in the background, appeared very sick. "These people would come in and they just felt so horrible, they would lay down," Lopez told ABC News on Thursday. Lopez said that after some time, staff members at the site addressed the woman, covering her with a blue gown "to warm her up," before they "poured her into a wheelchair."