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Right after Trump’s press conference last week, Harris says he realized he only had a ten-day supply of his medication left, and he immediately became scared. He called his Walgreens pharmacy in Cleveland Park, where he usually refills the prescription, and staff told him they were trying to stock the medication without any luck.

“They were saying the indication they were getting [from suppliers] as they made calls was basically, ‘good luck. It’s going to be some time,'” Harris says. “That scared them, and it really scared me.”

Harris says he spoke to his doctor, who told him he was better off taking matters into his own hands. So Harris spent hours researching and eventually bought more medicine from overseas, he says, knowing that he could not be without it for even a short amount of time.

After about five days, Walgreens was able to find some hydroxychloroquine and stock it for him, he says. But the possibility of finding himself without it was overwhelming.

“For me it was a very tense five days or so, and four or five hours of panicky internet searching,” he says. “It’s upsetting to think that you can’t get a drug you need to stay fundamentally healthy.”

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