'I felt like a guinea pig.' 45-year-old Kentucky man relives 38-day hospital battle with COVID-19

COVID-19 took Tony Arms’ job on March 20. He never dreamed a few days later it would threaten his life, too. Like so many during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, Arms felt the ripple effect at work well before he felt a tightness in his chest. Once Ford Motor Company shut down production, his job trucking parts for them became irrelevant. The 44-year-old left his final day at work and headed to Kroger across the Ohio River near his Clarksville, Indiana, home.