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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad who is 73 finally caught Covid. He has several pre-existing conditions, so we took him to urgent care to get Paxlovid. They refused to prescribe it although he is symptomatic and has a positive test.

They claimed only his doctor can prescribe it. This does not seem right!

Would appreciate hearing from others, if you’ve had experiences with Paxlovid?

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Physician here who works in Urgent Care.  That's completely crazy!  I can understand they might want to check his renal function and either ask for recent bloodwork or order it themselves, but that is precisely why urgent care exists!  To urgently treat higher risk individuals as quickly as possible and in this case, significantly reduce his risk.  I would report to supervisor and state medical board.  [/quote]

I strongly suspect the OP left out important details. If her dad has several pre-existing conditions, then there’s a pretty chance he takes medications with adverse interactions with paxlovid. You can easily imagine an urgent care provider not feeling comfortable telling a patient to halt their maintenance medications, or ignore the interactions, in order to take paxlovid.[/quote]

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