of the drug each week. And the pill, which attacks a key protein involved in SARS-CoV-2 reproduction, is genuinely life-saving. In clinical trials, a five-day treatment reduced the rate of hospitalization and death by 90 percent.
But for some people taking the pill, COVID still comes back. The phenomenon, called Paxlovid or COVID rebound, is relatively new and poorly understood. For a smattering of patients, rebound means a flare-up of fever, cough, or. For others, the rebound is asymptomatic, but they begin testing positive after testing negative at the end of treatment.
Kami Kim, director of the Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine at the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine, spoke towhile in quarantine with a rebound COVID case. Last month, Kim tested positive for the virus for first time during the pandemic. Although she’s not at high risk, “I got reasonably sick and my boss insisted that I take Paxlovid, because you have to give it early,” she says.
But two weeks after her first infection started, Kim started to feel like she was allergic to something. She didn’t think much of it, until she was exposed to COVID during a trip a few days later. She took a rapid test, and it was “screamingly positive,” she says. So, she went back into quarantine. If not for that exposure, she explains, she would have just thought the symptoms were allergies. “That’s sort of like the classic story of Paxlovid rebound.
Vaccinated people died - doesn’t mean the vaccine was not effective…
Lol
It just means CoVid virus is still one step ahead of us.
We only belive what the government and media tells us, not what we see with our own eyes. 1984
We only had twins despite using condoms, and thankfully it wasn’t triplets. Doesn’t mean the condoms didn’t work
Some people got covid after getting the vaccine but that doesn't mean the vaccine doesn't work
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