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Which part of that are you having trouble with? We have two different age ranges, one of them separately measured with and without treatment, with the same outcomes across all groupings.
Paxlovid? You'd have expected more people to be doing more to not get infected & reinfected by COVID, and trying to stop the spread. But here we are. 5 years in.
What do you propose? Continue social distancing and masking? About the only middle ground is masking in medical settings and crowded, non-social spaces. I guess vaccination rates are low, but that should be a good thing for people who are vaccinated.
I took Paxlovid twice. Horrible bitter taste, but kept the symptoms at bay. No long covid or persisting brain fog unlike some of my friends. Tested negative by the end of the treatment. My fiancé didn't catch it from my while I isolated. Derek doesn't have to take Paxlovid next time, but I will.
How doy ou know it kept your symptoms at bay? Plenty of people don't get long Covid, why were you sure you'd get it if you didn't take paxlovid? Same with brain fog?
GoodRX, Paxlovid ranges from $1,497 at CVS to $1,696 at Costco. Fuck me! Only for rich muppets then? In my local Boots chemist Aspirin is about £2.00 for 28 tablets. Paxlovid is a combination of 2 medicines called nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. Nirmatrelvir stops the virus from growing and spreading, and ritonavir helps nirmatrelvir from being broken down in your body long enough to do its job. Fuck me! again.
so if banning this med is the only way to make the world more equal, I'm all for it.
I really think treating Covid for older people is a very different than treating young people.
That said, when I took PAXLOVID my daughter, son in law and grandson had the same Covid strain I did at the same time and their symptoms were very bad and lasted ten days to over two weeks.
I took Paxlovid twice. Horrible bitter taste, but kept the symptoms at bay. No long covid or persisting brain fog unlike some of my friends. Tested negative by the end of the treatment. My fiancé didn't catch it from my while I isolated. Derek doesn't have to take Paxlovid next time, but I will.
Anecdotes aren’t usually helpful for effectiveness testing. My experience can vary greatly between my neighbor even with identical demographics and characteristics.
For most people now, the whole reason to take Paxlovid is the avoid long covid. The hospitalization risk is less of a concern. The article points out at the end that this drug has shown evidence of avoiding long covid.
But only in high-risk patients, it should be noted.
I took Paxlovid twice. Horrible bitter taste, but kept the symptoms at bay. No long covid or persisting brain fog unlike some of my friends. Tested negative by the end of the treatment. My fiancé didn't catch it from my while I isolated. Derek doesn't have to take Paxlovid next time, but I will.
How doy ou know it kept your symptoms at bay? Plenty of people don't get long Covid, why were you sure you'd get it if you didn't take paxlovid? Same with brain fog?
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But only in high-risk patients, it should be noted.
No, any type of patient can get long covid. I suspect a heathy adult gets it from a combination of bad luck and/or not resting enough, doing too much, etc. post infection.