Health officials urge Alabamians with COVID to ask about Paxlovid

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“It saves lives. It prevents serious illness. It prevents hospitalization. It prevents death. It’s highly effective,” State Health Officer Scott Harris said about Paxlovid, a drug used as a treatment for COVID-19 .

only 20 percent of people 65 and older got a Paxlovid prescription once they tested positive for COVID-19 between January and June of 2022.

Less than half of Alabamians have gotten any vaccine, and many who only received the first shot are not very protected against current variants, said Harris, who added he is worried about how COVID-19 will play out this winter. Thrasher said he often hears from patients that their providers are reluctant to proscribe Paxlovid. He suspects that’s because of the complexity of vetting dozens of potential drug interactions that can occur with the drugs and the requirement to have information on patients’ liver and kidney function in order to proscribe the proper dose.“You’ve got a new illness not heard of four years ago and new treatments not heard of four years ago,” Thrasher said.

“These vaccines have been pushed so much, and they’re everywhere in the news,” she said. “You don’t see as much about the ways to treat COVID. There’s probably not as many people aware.”

 

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Stop already Memaw !!!!! It’s our choice . Period

Why r people having relapses using this drug if it’s so good!

You take it, I'll watch.

If they are pushing it...then you can bet it's poison. Maw Maw should apologize to the free Alabamians.

Still peddling this garbage? Not vaxxed, not masking, never even tested, and I'm not taking your drug advice.

I did, they said government only sent a limited amount. By the time they located it I was outside the window of effectiveness.

Can y’all get these old people out of office like no 70 year old women understand live for have 22 year old

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