Paxlovid only worked temporarily for my wife's friend. She was feeling good for a couple days but is now back in bed feeling terrible :/
It seems she's far from the only one
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scientists-investigate-perplexing-viral-rebound-covid-19-cases/story?id=84475465
https://globalnews.ca/news/8826587/pfizer-paxlovid-covid-symptoms-explainer/
Dozens of individuals have reported rebounding COVID symptoms on social media or to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after taking Paxlovid, but Pfizer suggests the experience is rare.
Pfizer has said that from more than 300,000 patients it is monitoring who received the five-day treatment, around 1-in-3,000, or about 0.03 per cent, reported a relapse after taking the pills.
She's either extremely unlucky (lost a lung due to cancer being detected/treated too late, got Covid despite being extra careful, now part of the 0.03%) or they need to test better... Or could a mutation be responsible.
My wife is starting to come to the conclusion she might need to go to the hospital. Her hands are numb, tingling, arms not great either. Low oxygen probably. She can hardly stand up. However hospitals just raise her blood pressure through the roof and you can't even open a window there. Plus too many bad memories, when you know the doctors you never want to see again on a first name basis...
Not sure if it's the same everywhere but you can't get oxygen here without a specialist referral. Controlled substance lol. (With valid reasons, it can also make things worse with certain lung conditions)
She's still coping atm however the hot weather is coming back, Friday 29c. And since the rain everything has been growing, which prompts people to burn their garden waste and have campfires at night, making it impossible to breathe for her. So it would be air conditioning either way :/
Meanwhile the WHO recommends China to just give up
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/china-s-covid-plan-is-unsustainable-due-to-omicron-who-1.5907084
"We understand why the initial response of China was to try and suppress infections to the maximum level (but) that strategy is not sustainable and other elements of the strategic response needs to be amplified," he said. Ryan added that vaccination efforts should continue and emphasized that "a suppression-only strategy is not a sustainable way to exit the pandemic for any country."
I guess just letting the vulnerable die or deal with year long recoveries is the way to exit the pandemic... F this world.
Ryan said any unchecked transmission in countries like North Korea and Eritrea could spur the emergence of new variants, but that the WHO was powerless to act unless countries accepted its help.
Fuck you Ryan, where the fuck did Omicron and all the others come from. Now you're fucking concerned, fuck off.
He said the WHO had offered to send both North Korea and Eritrea vaccines, medicines, tests and technical support, but that neither country's leader has yet responded.
How about Africa fucktard, did they reject your 'help' as well. Still only 17% fully vaccinated. Not that fully vaccinated plus booster did my wife any good.
