A small number of COVID-19 patients are relapsing after taking Pfizer's antiviral pill, raising questions about the drug at the center of the U.S. response effort.
for adults at high risk of severe COVID-19 based on a study in which 1,000 adults received the medication.Doctors have started reporting rare cases of patients whose symptoms return several days after completing Paxlovid’s five-day regimen of pills. That’s prompted questions about whether those patients are still contagious and should receive a second course of Paxlovid.
“The ability to clear the virus after it’s suppressed may be different from omicron to delta, especially for vaccinated people,” said Charness, who works for Boston’s VA health system. But that doesn’t reflect the vast majority of Americans today, where 89% of adults have had at least one shot. And roughly“That’s the population I care about in 2022 because that’s who we’re seeing ― vaccinated people with COVID ― so do they benefit?” asked Dr. David Boulware, a University of Minnesota researcher and physician.
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