The antiviral drug Paxlovid reduces the risk of getting long COVID

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The antiviral drug Paxlovid reduces the risk of getting long COVID
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It’s not a panacea, but it might be one of the things that can help. CovidIsNotOver COVID19 LongCovid Paxlovid

from COVID ). To assess the drug’s longer-term effects, Al-Aly and colleagues examined medical records from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care system. The researchers found more than 280,000 patients who had a positive COVID test in 2022 and at least one risk factor for developing severe illness. Of those people, nearly 36,000 got Paxlovid within five days of their positive test result.

Some researchers dispute whether the study fully captures what long COVID is. The condition is notoriously For instance, many people with long COVID experience post-exertional malaise, or extreme tiredness after exercise, says Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, director of the post-COVID recovery clinic at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. But there isn’t a medical code for that condition, she says, “so it’s hard to pull out of a medical record review.”

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