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As Covid rises again, killing about 1,500 Americans each week, researchers are trying to understand why so few high-risk patients are taking Paxlovid, a medicine that is stunningly effective in preventing severe illness and death from the disease.
With Covid deaths rising to about 1,500 per week, researchers question why Paxlovid use has remained low among high-risk patients.
Thanks for this. I hadn’t heard of it but my MIL got covid and I was able to get her set up on there and got a script for paxlovid later that same evening, just before Walgreens closed. So glad this resource exists. Sad that it is not well known!
The NYT bears a lot of responsibility for people thinking COVID is over TBH
Thanks! I learn they provide free dual test flu/COVID which seems ideal. Medication may not be free if you pickup at a pharmacy but would be if home delivery. (Says the site)
When a family member was sick, I also learned that if you DO have insurance, you can't get the free tests, but if you have already tested positive, you can still get free telehealth and they will mail the meds to you for free also.
Dang, this would've been nice to know about when I got Covid right before Christmas. Had to pay $30 to Walgreens to get a script, then wait an hour for their pharmacy to tell me that didn't even have it in stock, so I had to transfer it to the pharmacy I wanted to go to anyway.
The doctors here will not prescribe paxlovid unless you are very old, or are severely immunocompromised.
I'm not eligible for whatever reason, but at least it was a fairly quick set of questions.
I did thank you!
Wish we had something like this in Canada. Here they only prescribe paxlovid to people who’ve already got a positive PCR, and PCRs are restricted to just a small number of healthcare workers, or people hospitalized specifically for covid symptoms.