Paxlovid Fails First Test in Treating Long COVID

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

 

A 15-day course of the antiviral nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) didn't improve symptoms of long COVID, according to a randomized controlled trial that was stopped early for lack of efficacy.

 

The STOP-PASC trial showed no difference in improvement on a combined outcome of fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, body aches, and gastrointestinal and cardiovascular symptoms for nirmatrelvir-ritonavir compared with placebo-ritonavir over 10 weeks, Upinder Singh, MD, of Stanford University, and colleagues reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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"I don't think we've shown that Paxlovid doesn't work," Singh told MedPage Today. "We've shown that 15 days of Paxlovid given to this highly vaccinated patient population who has had symptoms for a long time, didn't show any statistically significant difference in the composite [outcome]."

 

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MedPage Today

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/longcovid/110544

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

Oh yes it works, but not to the benefit of those taking it....

[impulse]

10 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

"I don't think we've shown that Paxlovid doesn't work," Singh told MedPage Today. "We've shown that 15 days of Paxlovid given to this highly vaccinated patient population who has had symptoms for a long time, didn't show any statistically significant difference in the composite [outcome]."

 

Safe and effective? 

 

And I wonder whether they are really treating long Covid, or long vax?