As more people report Paxlovid rebounds of Covid, experts insist the cases are rare

A minority of people who take Paxlovid for Covid see their symptoms rebound or test positive again after stopping the treatment.

When Dr. Anthony Fauci got Covid in June, he took Paxlovid, an antiviral drug for people with mild to moderate symptoms whose ages or immune statuses put them at high risk for severe disease. The treatment consists of three pills taken twice daily for five days.

Fauci finished the treatment and tested negative for Covid. But about three days later, a test came back positive again. His symptoms — runny nose, sore throat and fever — resurfaced, too.

A small minority of people who take Paxlovid see a similar rebound effect.

"When you look at the studies, it generally does not occur very often," Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, said Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." But he noted that there have been "anecdotal cases" that suggest rebounds are more common now than they were in clinical trials.

Around 1% to 2% of people taking Paxlovid in Pfizer's clinical trial tested positive for the coronavirus after having tested negative. Rebound rates are around 5% among the tens of thousands of people who've taken the drug in real-life settings, the White House Covid response coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, said at a news conference last week.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/people-report-paxlovid-rebounds-covid-experts-insist-cases-are-rare-rcna40031


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