According to this article, some people who take paxlovid "recover" and test negative, only to relapse and get sick again (according to the article, this also happens in some people who didn't take paxlovid, so it's not necessarily an issue that is specific to paxlovid).
>>>Infectious-disease experts agree that this phenomenon of the virus rebounding after some patients take the drug appears to be real but rare. Exactly how often it occurs, why it happens and what - if anything - to do about it remain matters of debate. . . .
Pfizer is collecting data, in clinical trials and in real-world monitoring of the drug's use. The company's trial data indicates there is a late uptick in viral load in some people who take the drug,
but the rates appear to be the same among study participants given a placebo, according to a person familiar with the data who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely.
Those findings suggest that Paxlovid isn't the reason people are relapsing, because that's happening in untreated people, too. . . .
The limited evidence leaves most physicians favoring the idea that Paxlovid knocks the virus down but doesn't knock it out completely. It's possible that by holding the virus in check, the immune response doesn't fully ramp up, because it doesn't see enough virus. Once the treatment ends, the virus can start multiplying again in some people.<<<
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