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Paxlovid can lessen the chance of a severe COVID-19 illness. Why is it underused?
Breitbart ^ | 02/07/2024 | AP

Posted on 02/07/2024 8:10:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Tens of thousands of Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19 every week. Thousands die from it every month. And yet, an antiviral treatment proven to lessen the chances of severe outcomes is going underused.

The drug, Paxlovid, is lauded by experts as a powerful tool that can prevent hospitalization and death from COVID-19. But the high price and doctors’ hesitation to prescribe the pills mean the five-day treatment isn’t getting to everyone who would benefit from it.

“When you read in your local newspaper that in this hospital, they’ve got this many COVID patients, most of those are preventable hospitalizations,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University who sees Paxlovid as a useful tool to treat COVID-19.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; illness; paxlovid; severe; variants
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Maybe because its useless?
1 posted on 02/07/2024 8:10:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because we are told that it “can,” not that it “does.”


2 posted on 02/07/2024 8:12:30 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cured me twice.


3 posted on 02/07/2024 8:12:30 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Tens of thousands of Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19 every week. Thousands die from it every month”

They say this yet I do not see this happening at all. And I’m not a hermit. I call BS.


4 posted on 02/07/2024 8:13:13 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“ Thousands die from it every month.”

I don’t believe this for a second. They may die with it but they don’t die from it.

5 posted on 02/07/2024 8:13:38 AM PST by circlecity
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To: ChicagoConservative27

at $1300 for a 5 day dose, it’s kind of pricey. Plus, hasn’t Pfizer gotten rich enough off Covid already?


6 posted on 02/07/2024 8:15:14 AM PST by trad_anglican
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To: Shady

The metallic taste side effect was so bad my wife discontinued taking it after 2 days.

She said she’d rather just deal with covid.


7 posted on 02/07/2024 8:16:17 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

article is a reprint from AP ... no wonder it sounds like scare-mongering propaganda ...


8 posted on 02/07/2024 8:16:31 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: V_TWIN

York Peppermint Patties do the trick.


9 posted on 02/07/2024 8:16:51 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At this point who would trust anything from the pharma industry or the corporatized hospitals. I believe there may be plenty of people for whom the shot and plaxovid are appropriate but after the years of opacity, lies, and the often deadly mis-treatment of patients who would do anything pharma, hospital doctors, or government suggests?


10 posted on 02/07/2024 8:16:52 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: circlecity

I am told that to this day if you die of/with covid in the hospital your family receives $9000. Covid $$$$ seem to be still flowing. (My news is about 2 weeks old and regards a death of about 6 weeks ago)


11 posted on 02/07/2024 8:19:03 AM PST by Oystir
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Breitbart posting AP drivel now?


12 posted on 02/07/2024 8:19:34 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Shady

Congratulations on your immunity!

From what I understand, Paxlovid does not remove a virus, but stops its replication while you’re on it. This buys your immune system time to lock on to the infection and mount a defense.

I am sure there are good times and cases to use it.


13 posted on 02/07/2024 8:19:51 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is that new Pfizermectin where Pfizer made an expensive version of Ivermectin. Better off using regular Ivermectin.


14 posted on 02/07/2024 8:20:10 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: circlecity

“They may die with it but they don’t die from it”

That my friend is one of the greatest falsehoods perpetrated during covid.

And for that reason we will NEVER know how many people covid actually killed.


15 posted on 02/07/2024 8:21:08 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Helped me getting through covid.


16 posted on 02/07/2024 8:21:29 AM PST by Dog (..."I'm just a cook....")
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To: DesertRhino

HCQ
A friend from Ghana told me they take a $.50 pill once a week
No flu, no covid, or Malaria


17 posted on 02/07/2024 8:21:45 AM PST by TStro (God made all men equal Sam Colt made them polite.)
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To: Seruzawa

Yah, anyone pushing this crappola is in the bag for Pharm.

In addition, this drug is suppressed only because it can serve as a treatment for WuhanFlu infection. The existence of any reasonable treatment nullifies the emergency approval of the Vax. Without that Pharm has no immunity.

You’d have to be a simpleton to not know this.


18 posted on 02/07/2024 8:23:28 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Paxlovid works.

Ivermectin taken with Zinc works.

The Paxlovid dose will cost you $1300.00

The Ivermectin/Zinc Dose will cost you 100 bucks.

Market forces are at work.


19 posted on 02/07/2024 8:23:45 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Shady

No, your immune system did.


20 posted on 02/07/2024 8:24:46 AM PST by EEGator
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