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Janit wrote:
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One thought is that the tens of thousands of more or less normal people who get a mild case (after being fully vaccinated and boosted) will develop immunity and get rid of the virus completely, whereas using paxlovid to knock down the viral load will reduce the symptoms but will also reduce the immune response.
Increased immunity does you no good if you have already died.
It's a balancing act. If problematic levels of symptoms start to appear, it is most important to treat the symptoms and deal with methods for increasing immunity later.
It's a balancing act based primarily on age and other comorbidities, no? If a healthy person tests positive and they are young-ish, and plan to live for a while longer fighting other viruses, they may opt not to medicate.
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mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=Janit]
[quote=Ca Bob]
One thought is that the tens of thousands of more or less normal people who get a mild case (after being fully vaccinated and boosted) will develop immunity and get rid of the virus completely, whereas using paxlovid to knock down the viral load will reduce the symptoms but will also reduce the immune response.
Increased immunity does you no good if you have already died.
It's a balancing act. If problematic levels of symptoms start to appear, it is most important to treat the symptoms and deal with methods for increasing immunity later.
It's a balancing act based primarily on age and other comorbidities, no? If a healthy person tests positive and they are young-ish, and plan to live for a while longer fighting other viruses, they may opt not to medicate.
Yeah, everyone needs to make the decisions based on their health status. The friend said the elderly parent was part of a family group infection pod. The grandchildren did not take Paxlovid and had inconvenient but not hospitalization worthy bouts of C19. They had no preexisting health commodities.
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Well, I took the other antiviral (Merck's), no side effects whatsoever and the symptoms disappeared almost immediately. And then some time later, some symptoms reappeared and were not recognized for what they were. I managed to merrily infect a couple of people around me, thinking that I cannot possibly be infectious a week after testing negative. So rebound is the other potential drawback of antivirals.
