Oh, geez.

Hi, it's Lizzie.

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, just after I tested positive. Here's some more tape.

I felt probably significantly better 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. And then that, when I went off the

Paxilovid, the five-day course, I started feeling sicker again.

And my fever, which has never been high, came back just a little bit.

And then I started testing strongly positive.

Okay. then I started testing strongly positive. That is how I sound when I cough.

I'm going to be fine, but this has been a bit of a roller coaster.

Again, I'm fine. I'm vaccinated. I'm boosted. I have access to great medical care.

But I recorded this audio because what happened to me is now something of a hot topic among people who've taken Paxlovod.

So it sounds like you had a pretty standard case of what

folks have been calling either COVID rebound or Paxlovid rebound. That's Rachel Gutman-Way.

She's been writing about Paxlovich for the Atlantic, which is when after taking the full five-day

course of the drug, people start feeling poorly again,

testing positive after a certain number of days.

It happened to me, and it happened to Anthony Fauci, who took Paxlovid, tested negative,

and then tested positive again.

And then over the next day or so, I started to feel really poorly, much worse than in the first go-around.

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