From David Fremlin, Colchester, Essex, UK
Annalee Newitz, who has had covid-19, says that US doctors are “leery of prescribing [Paxlovid]. No one is quite sure why.” Perhaps the doctors have prior experience of this antiviral? It seems that it is effective at relieving symptoms and possibly in controlling infectivity, but there have been some reports of the virus rebounding after a week or so (2 September, p 22).
