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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe your mistake was was taking pax to begin with. It was never tested in vaccinated people. You sound healthy. You honestly probably prolonged your bout with Covid by taking it. My husband was done in 3 days. My kids in 2. Took me 5 personally. [/quote]

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Honestly, it might not be. My older teen son had COVID three weeks ago and didn't take Paxlovid. He was pretty sick for a full 5 days and then felt somewhat better but still fatigued. He tested negative for COVID last week and felt better. This weekend, he developed a low-grade fever, sore throat, chills, etc. He is testing negative. Researching it, I found studies saying that between 10 and 30 percent of those with COVID who did not take antivirals experienced a rebound in symptoms. He is still testing negative. Some of the researchers suggested that the rebound could be an immune response, not the virus itself.

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[quote]Smith wasn’t surprised by the results. “As an infectious disease doc, [I] know that respiratory disease viruses often have this waxing and waning,” he says, adding that it also happens with colds, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). “It’s just their nature.” This is likely because most symptoms are related to the body’s inflammatory response to the virus, not the virus itself, he says. The inflammation—which is different for everyone—generally lasts longer than the virus, and it ebbs and flows as viral remnants are cleared from the body.[/quote]

[url]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-rebound-can-happen-even-without-paxlovid/[/url]
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