Commentary: Why do some people, like President Biden, who take Paxlovid get 'rebound' COVID-19?

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What is rebound COVID-19? How sick do 'rebounders' get? And what does antiviral drug Paxlovid have to do with it? This infectious disease researcher tells us why some people, like US President Joe Biden, test positive again after supposedly recovering.

Paxlovid is a combination treatment that uses two different antivirals:Nirmatrelvir works to prevent the virus replicating. It does this by stopping a viral enzyme called a protease.

Ritonavir has been used in low doses to boost the effectiveness of other protease antivirals in infections such as HIV. Like all antivirals, it’s important to start the course of Paxlovid as soon as possible after a diagnosis of COVID. This needs to be within five days of the onset of symptoms, so it can reduce virus replication and therefore reduce the spread of the virus in the body.

Compared to people in the study who didn’t receive the drug, Paxlovid treatment also reduced the viral load when measured on day five of the study.Rebound is when a person appears to have recovered and “cleared” the virus, meaning they test negative on the very sensitive PCR test and have no symptoms. Then a few days later, they test positive again or symptoms return.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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Just listen and follow this Grandma and you shall be fine.

We are all forced to be terrified of “sniffles” now. What a stupidity, what a cruelty!

See why he wants Brittney back he needs somebody to catch his rebounds...

Quoted, 'So just because you’ve received SARS-CoV-2 antiviral treatment, does not automatically mean you’re “cured”.' Same for Covid Vaccine then, which means it is useless. Do you all feel that you all are being mislead already by the experts? To err is human. To mislead is evil

Paxlovid is as useless as Pfizer

Hahahahaha! Because the tests for COVID-19 were not invented for detecting COVID-19. When you start from the wrong premise, you'll keep going down the wrong rat-holes! QED

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