"Just like with the vaccines, pharmacies are your most accessible touch point to health care," said Eddie Petrov, owner of Cabbagetown Pharmacy. "It makes sense that as you make a service more accessible, more people will tend to utilize it."Paxlovid is a combination of pills that can be obtained for free with a prescription and taken at home, but must be started within five days of symptoms appearing.
That's because while clinical trials have shown the antiviral to be safe, it has a number of drug-to-drug interactions that could cause negative health effects. Paxlovid can also cause negative effects if given to people whose kidneys or liver are not functioning properly. Pharmacists must also determine whether the person's kidney and liver function is adequate because patients with dysfunction in those organs could see the medication build up in their bodies, Belcher said.
"It's piecing together as accurate as history as possible, looking at the reliability of that information and then making a decision based off of all of those patient factors as to whether or not the likely benefit to you is greater than the potential risk," said Belcher. "Different prescribers will have different comfort levels as to what the benefit versus risk is."
"People that I, as a pharmacist, know are definitely a lot easier to help because I'm a little bit more aware of their medical profile, other medical history, what medications they're on," Petrov said. "Whereas someone that's [from] out of town, you don't necessarily have the same rapport or familiarity with them, which would make it of course a little bit more difficult to assess whether they would qualify for a prescription.
Now do ivermectin which lib gov and big pharma banned Turd lovers.
4300 out of a population of 4-5 million in GTA. That’s not a win.
CBC, everything you say, I think the opposite. In early 2021 you promised that the government would not force vax mandates and yet they did. WHY DO WE NEVER HEAR AN APOLOGY FROM YOU! I HOPE THE FIRST THING PierrePoilievre DOES WHEN HE BECOMES PM IS DEFUND THE CBC, CTV & OTHERS!
Torontonians love their drugs
It almost impossible to get in BC.
No kidding, since it had a small critical timeline to be useful, by the time anyone got to their GP for it prior, it was beyond the timeline to be of any use to prescribe. Imagine the morning after pill with a 2 week delay for GP appt.
CBC in 2021 states that anyone saying paxlovid would help COVID patients were spreading mis/disinformation. Seems you were the ones spreading mis/disinformation AGAIN!!
DefundCBC
You believe what Ford`s assistance say ?
Cbc is fake news
STATE ACTOR promotes product that likely does not work, ignores product proven to work in India - Invermectin.
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The mullahs' regime is arresting political activists in Zahedan in the silence of the media. The silence of the international community regarding the violation of human rights by the mullahs' regime in Iran is not acceptable. IranRevolution2023 MahsaAmini U
The mullahs' regime is arresting political activists in Zahedan in the silence of the media. The silence of the international community regarding the violation of human rights by the mullahs' regime in Iran is not acceptable. IranRevolution2023 MahsaAmini T
The mullahs' regime is arresting political activists in Zahedan in the silence of the media. The silence of the international community regarding the violation of human rights by the mullahs' regime in Iran is not acceptable. IranRevolution2023 MahsaAmini S
The mullahs' regime is arresting political activists in Zahedan in the silence of the media. The silence of the international community regarding the violation of human rights by the mullahs' regime in Iran is not acceptable. IranRevolution2023 MahsaAmini R
The mullahs' regime is arresting political activists in Zahedan in the silence of the media. The silence of the international community regarding the violation of human rights by the mullahs' regime in Iran is not acceptable. IranRevolution2023 MahsaAmini Q
$2,301,260 and a guaranteed rebound case.
Probably better than the poisonous jabs you pushed for Trudeau, now when will you publicly acknowledge the injuries and SuddenDeaths from those lethal jabs? Never too late to do the right thing CBC
guy_massage completely agree! even sick children, most paediatrician would avoid assessing children until ALL symptoms (COVID or not) have subsided. My kid went 8 weeks before being allowed to enter their office.....
Not surprised. When you test positive for Covid19 it’s damn near impossible to get to a Doctor. Pharmacists are much more accessible. This should have been in place a long time ago, for Covid19 and the many other ailments that can be addressed by a simple prescription.