What Next TBD: Paxlovid's Mysteries

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🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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There's still a lot unknown about COVID's new wonder drug. Guest: Rachel Gutman-Wei Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.7	This is a little audio I recorded of myself on Monday, June 27th, when I had COVID. At that point, I'd been sick for two weeks. And because I have an autoimmune disease, I went on the antiviral drug Paxlovid,
0:55.6	just after I tested positive. Here's some more tape. I felt probably significantly better
1:02.0	after being on it for probably three days, four days. When I took a test, a home test, I was still positive, but only had a very faint line.
1:18.5	And then that when I went off the Paxlovod, the five-day course, I started feeling sicker again, and my fever, which has never been high, came back just a little
1:35.2	bit.
1:36.3	And then I started testing strongly positive.
1:50.4	That is how I sound when I cough.
1:59.5	I'm going to be fine, but this has been a bit of a roller coaster.
2:05.1	Again, I'm fine. I'm vaccinated. I'm boosted. I have access to great medical care.
2:12.0	But I recorded this audio because what happened to me is now something of a hot topic among people who've taken Paxlovod.
2:18.8	So it sounds like you had a pretty standard case of what folks have been calling either COVID rebound or Paxlovod rebound.
2:21.1	That's Rachel Gutman Way. She's been writing about Paxloid for the Atlantic.
2:25.6	Which is when after taking the full five-day course of the drug, people start feeling poorly
2:32.6	again, testing positive after a certain number of days.
2:36.1	It happened to me, and it happened to Anthony Fauci, who took Paxlovid, tested negative, and then
2:42.1	tested positive again.
2:44.0	And then over the next day or so, I started to feel really poorly, much worse than in the
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