I’m sick and came to the doctor to get tested for covid, strep, and flu, since those are going around my work. I asked the doctor if I could get paxlovid if the covid test was positive, and he goes “Oh I don’t think you’d need it”
Motherfucker almost everyone who catches covid should be fucking taking it wtf is wrong with you. Oh I’m young and otherwise healthy? Yeah and I’d like to fucking stay that way thank you very much, and I’ll take any reduction in the chance of becoming permanently disabled.
Also of the medical professionals I saw today, they were only wearing surgical masks, not N95s and I can’t comprehend it. Why in the hell would you go into the room of a likely covid case not wearing an N95 are you insane?
I’m so fucking sick of being the only person in this entire town that’s actually worried about catching this disease, even the fucking doctors don’t care anymore. I work in a research facility attached to a hospital and when I go to the food court and shit at best like 1/25 people are wearing masks. In a hospital.
Thank you Mr Joe Brandon for ending the pandemic, you’ve truly cemented your place among history’s greatest killers.
Plenty of “young healthy people” are in the ground thanks to covid my very close friend among them
From personal experience when I had covid I felt like absolute dog shit started paxlovid day 2 and by day 3 felt 70% better.
I trust the for profit American health care system 0%, and I trust doctors as much as I trust pit vipers. If something is out there that is going to help better my odds I’m taking it, and fuck anyone who tries to convince me otherwise your vampire pulmonologist friend included.
The drug interaction concern is a good one but that research is publicly available for you to do.
Christ, I hate when people play these games. "Don't trust doctors, do your own research".
Research authored by whom?
My sister's father in law is an elderly GP that voted for Trump and was out eating at restaurants the week Florida came out of lockdown. Florida's surgeon general is an anti-vaxxer. The very people at the CDC who are supposed to be looking out for us recently had a conference where like 200 people caught Covid.
I, personally, am going to listen to the Doctors and Researchers who aren't flat out ignoring an ongoing mass disabling event.
Which, by the way, Florida is where I am. The Florida department of health is an arm of the DeSantis political machine. Doctors here are functionally pro-covid. Excuse me if I’m not lining up to listen to their opinions on this when they aren’t even masking.
Which Doctor/Research is saying everyone should take paxlovid?
As far as I'm concerned, any research that shows that paxlovid significantly reduces the chance of Long Covid. Of which there is now plenty.
The outstanding body of research says that Paxlovid carries numerous significantly deleterious side effects, as well as a multitude of complications with other prescriptions.
For the same reason you shouldn't start taking antibiotics without consulting a physician, there are numerous reasons why you wouldn't want to start treatment on paxlovid without a doctor's approval.
Yeah, no shit. Like you said, like antibiotics and every drug. Which is why I'm doing my best to avoid getting covid in the first place. And wish everybody else was helping with that. But since they're fucking not, if it comes down to risk of brain damage, heart damage, every other organ damage, I'm gonna take the paxlovid.
What deleterious side effects does paxlovid have that covid doesn’t have similar or worse effects? No one is saying that people should just be taking paxlovid all the time randomly, but there is basically no question that it’s better than just letting the virus go
I'm not disagreeing, but I am having trouble finding information about this. What are some of these side effects? I've only seen something about the first suspected case of bradycardia as a result of Paxlovid.
I also think it isn't unreasonable for people to want to take Paxlovid when we have seen the effects of long COVID on the population or loved ones and research indicating it significantly reduces the chances of having these complications. I have a friend with LC now who is unable to keep up with their previous life due to chronic fatigue as a result of covid infection.
We're at a point where we know at least some of the long term risk factors of a COVID infection and are continuing to find more while the research on Paxlovid is still in progress with some initial findings coming out. I'm not arguing there aren't problems with over prescribing a treatment, but the American medical system has made it clear that all the responsibilities associated with COVID are indiviualized now, so why should treatment choice be any different? We have to accept all the risks of covid infection without consent or accept serious repercussions in finding employment but can't accept risks of a medication to treat it? I realize this sounds like advocacy for ivermectin or that we should be taking antibiotics like candy, but there is some nuance to this and the left and right do often times identify similar problems, just drastically different solutions/causes
research authored by researchers who actually investigate the subject at hand? you know doctors aren't connected by a hivemind right?
Yes. In fact, researchers who formulated the drug to begin with. If you don't trust the folks who developed paxlovid to tell you when and how to use paxlovid effectively, why the hell are you ingesting this drug to begin with?
but that's what they are doing when they go to the source to get their information. you're conflating the doctors prescribing it with the people who developed (or at least study) it. these aren't equally trustworthy groups
Sorry I mean on this point specifically I believe NHS has a published table of drug interactions with paxlovid
Edit: NIH https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antivirals-including-antibody-products/ritonavir-boosted-nirmatrelvir--paxlovid-/paxlovid-drug-drug-interactions/