Joe Biden is taking Paxlovid, even though doctors know it doesn’t really work

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Joe Biden is taking Paxlovid, even though doctors know it doesn’t really work

He’s vaxxed. He’s boosted. Will Paxlovid help? Probably not.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

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announced he has COVID on Wednesday.

The White House says his symptoms are mild, including a runny nose, cough, and malaise.

He’s taking the antiviral Paxlovid, but recent studies suggest it’s not a great *****.

Another summer

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is here. President Biden announced he is ***** with the virus on Wednesday, and he’s in good company.

Test positivity rates are up across the country, according to the latest

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, with rates especially high in California, New Mexico, and Nevada, where President Biden was traveling on Wednesday.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Wednesday that the president “has received his first dose” of Paxlovid, the antiviral treatment from Pfizer that’s meant to ease COVID-19 symptoms and make the virus less dangerous for high-risk patients.

But some experts wonder why you’d even prescribe this *****, which has been shown in study after study to be lackluster, at best.

Evidence suggests that Paxlovid doesn’t do a lot

It doesn’t

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There’s no evidence it

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It doesn’t seem to make the odds of a rebound, when the virus springs back into action just as a patient is recovering, any less likely — in fact, it may even be

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more

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for patients on Paxlovid to rebound than others.

There is maybe one thing Paxlovid can sort of do

The one thing Paxlovid seems to do is prevent a few hospitalizations in

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patients. But even for this, studies suggest it isn’t a great *****.

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of more than 1200 patients, out in April, suggested that maybe taking Paxlovid can prevent a few hospital admissions among the frailest, most vulnerable patients, but it’s tough to say. Five patients on Paxlovid in that study were hospitalized or *****. In the control group (not taking Paxlovid) that number was 10. The difference here wasn’t even statistically significant.

Paxlovid did seem to make hospital stays shorter in the Pfizer study, and ICU visits less likely. But other

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showed absolutely no difference in mortality when comparing hospitalized patients taking Paxlovid to those who weren’t on the *****.

ER doctor

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told readers of his Inside Medicine blog in June that “we should brace for the possibility” that upcoming studies will “either show Paxlovid is now completely unable to decrease hospitalizations or deaths, or that at best, it does so modestly for a narrow group of very high-risk patients.”

In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, Paxlovid looked like a better *****. But it’s just not doing that much for us now.

“It isn’t that Paxlovid no longer works,” Faust said. “Rather, it’s that in 2024, there are relatively few people who still seem to really need it to stay alive or out of the hospital.”

There is

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that’s already available in China, called Simnotrelvir, which seems to help improve the more mild, initial symptoms of this ********. But it’s unclear how much it would help the most vulnerable patients, and it’s not available in the US anyway.

Pfizer stands by Paxlovid. In a statement, a spokesperson told ***: “We remain very confident in PAXLOVID’s clinical effectiveness at preventing severe outcomes from COVID-19 in patients at increased risk.”

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