The drug is more available than it used to be
also found that the main ingredients in Paxlovid were effective against thePaxlovid “remains highly effective and is mainly well tolerated,” with the different variants, Dr. Zenobia Brown, medical director and vice president of population health care management at Northwell Health, told TIME. “However, we may be facing a situation where a longer course is warranted for some patients, especially those who receive the drug very early in their disease course and/or are immunocompromised.
Dr. Paul Sax, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, adds that “the most important new information is that some people will experience a relapse of COVID symptoms a few days after stopping treatment. People who have this relapse should consider themselves potentially contagious to others, especially if they test positive again on an antigen test.
Some experts, however, are calling for doctors to start prescribing the pills even before people who test positive for COVID-19 start experiencing symptoms. “Because initially we had a shortage of drug supply, people got the message we should be very reserved and only use it for the very higher source people when they get sick,” FDA Commissioner Robert M. CaliffSiriusXM’s Doctor Radio Reports host Dr. Marc Siegel on May 6.
“A problem that we’re seeing is people come in or get diagnosed, they’re feeling okay, but they’re high risk,” he continued. “And if you wait until they get sick, it’s too late. You want to prevent them from getting sick.” Meanwhile, preliminary data suggests that Paxlovid may also protect people who aren’t considered high-risk, potentially bolstering the argument for the drug to be given to the wider population. Analysis based on an
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