Wow! Remember When that would have been headlines here? Crickets…Have you all been watching Japan? It's been raging there.
Japan COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer
Japan Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.www.worldometers.info
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Around a third of people with Covid will experience a rebound of their symptoms, regardless of whether they’ve been treated with the antiviral Paxlovid, according to a study posted online Tuesday.Covid rebound can happen even in people who haven’t taken Paxlovid
A preprint study found that nearly a third of people with Covid experienced rebound symptoms and 12% tested positive again, regardless of whether they'd taken Paxlovid.
The preprint study — meaning it hasn’t been published in a peer-reviewed journal — found that 27% of people with Covid saw a rebound in their symptoms after they had initially improved.
“It happens all the time. People who are untreated with Covid who then feel better can get symptoms afterward,” said study co-author Dr. Davey Smith, chief of infectious diseases and global public health at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Still, Smith noted that the 27% finding was higher than what he’d expected based on anecdotal evidence...
Around a third of people with Covid will experience a rebound of their symptoms, regardless of whether they’ve been treated with the antiviral Paxlovid, according to a study posted online Tuesday.Covid rebound can happen even in people who haven’t taken Paxlovid
A preprint study found that nearly a third of people with Covid experienced rebound symptoms and 12% tested positive again, regardless of whether they'd taken Paxlovid.
The preprint study — meaning it hasn’t been published in a peer-reviewed journal — found that 27% of people with Covid saw a rebound in their symptoms after they had initially improved.
“It happens all the time. People who are untreated with Covid who then feel better can get symptoms afterward,” said study co-author Dr. Davey Smith, chief of infectious diseases and global public health at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Still, Smith noted that the 27% finding was higher than what he’d expected based on anecdotal evidence...
Based on what I've read, it sounds like Paxlovid "masks" the virus. It helps resolve symptoms fairly quickly, so the patient feels better and believes that they're ready to return to normal life. Paxlovid seems like a placebo that simply makes Covid sufferers belive that they've licked Covid. If I were to get Covid - and I do everything possible to avoid that - I would prefer intravenous anti-body treatment. JMO
I wonder if there is a holiday or social season/event that is related to the latest surge.Have you all been watching Japan? It's been raging there.
Japan COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer
Japan Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
If it were placebo it wouldn't lead to 90% reduction in risk of hospitalization or death. It clearly works, but 5 day dose might not be long enough for at least some of the patients.
www.cnn.com
Here's another article on the rebound issue:Seems that they don't know yet why the rebound happens. The article below discusses this and concludes that it is a mystery and needs to be studied. At this time, it sounds like the rebound cases have been mild, so there isn't the concern by the CDC to lengthen the course of treatment (i.e. a second round of Paxlovid). The main concern is that the person who is experiencing the rebound is contagious and is usually without symptoms.
Coronavirus can be contagious during a Paxlovid rebound, researchers warn, even if people don't have symptoms
People experiencing a Covid-19 rebound after treatment with the antiviral drug Paxlovid can be contagious, and researchers are warning that they may not know it because they might not have any symptoms when they are.
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www.wsj.com
www.nature.com
Since the anti vaxxers have take such hold in this country, I have been afraid that too many parents are not going to get their children vaccinated and that if that happens we will thrown back into the dark ages-- It is very scary.<modsnip>
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Dr. Peter Hotez has a related article in Nature about anti-vaccine activism and childhood vaccinations.
Will anti-vaccine activism in the USA reverse global goals? - Nature Reviews Immunology
In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaccine activism in the USA accelerated, amplified and formed an alliance with political groups and even extremists. An organized, well-funded and empowered anti-science movement now threatens to spill over and threaten all childhood immunizations in...
In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaccine activism in the USA accelerated, amplified and formed an alliance with political groups and even extremists. An organized, well-funded and empowered anti-science movement now threatens to spill over and threaten all childhood immunizations in the USA and globally.
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A central concern is whether anti-vaccine activism from the USA will detrimentally effect the world’s low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). For two decades, under the auspices of the ‘Global Goals’ (initially the ‘Millennium Development Goals’ followed by ‘Sustainable Development Goals’), tremendous strides have been made in reducing deaths and morbidity from measles, polio, pertussis and other dangerous illnesses that can be prevented by vaccination5. The fear is that globalizing anti-vaccine activism might reverse these trends. A successful vaccine ecosystem led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and its United Nations partners, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, is under threat.
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