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(2,595 posts)Paxlovid Rebound: Rare But Real
June 14, 2022
Peter Wehrwein
MHE Publication, MHE June 2022, Volume 32, Issue 6
Mayo Clinic researchers reported today in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases that less than 1% of patients at high risk for experiencing severe COVID-19 who were treated with Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir) experienced a second bout of COVID-19.
Paxlovid rebound is real and poorly understood, tweeted Bob Wachter, M.D., on May 11. We need urgent study & pt counseling.
Wachters tweet came as word about possible Paxlovid rebound started to ricochet around social media and conventional media outlets. Wachter, a professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, has emerged as one of the leading social media voices on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paxlovid rebound refers to the phenomenon of symptomatic COVID-19 coming back a few days after people have finished taking the prescribed five-day course of Pfizers oral antiviral medication and test negative. No one is sure why it occurs.
https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/paxlovid-rebound-rare-but-real