As Paxlovid remains as one of the few treatments currently available to fight COVID-19, interest in the antiviral drug continues to grow, with heavy heed to its side effects.

"Most people will have no side effects from that drug." About 14% of people test positive after testing negative and about 19% see symptoms return after a prescribed course of Paxlovid ...

Health officials are renewing their pleas to eligible Americans to get prescriptions to Paxlovid, Pfizer's COVID pills, to curb their risk of hospitalization and death from the disease ...

What to know about side effects and Paxlovid rebound Paxlovid's primary side effect is a metallic taste in the mouth during the five days of treatment. It goes away when treatment ends.

Some of the more common side effects after taking Paxlovid are developing a temporary metallic taste in the mouth, which occurs in about 6% of recipients, and diarrhea (3%). However, some people ...

Side effects from Paxlovid include a metallic taste in the mouth, diarrhea, nausea, and muscle aches, among others, but serious complications are uncommon. “Consistently, people are tolerating t ...

Experts aren’t certain why some people decline to take Paxlovid, but anecdotally patients say they are worried about side effects or the risk of “rebound” covid. Peter Chin-Hong, an ...

The downsides of Paxlovid are small (with mild side effects like temporarily abnormal taste) against the potential for a decreased risk of hospitalization and death, which is limited to higher ...

However, the side effects from ritonavir were problematic. Anyone who has taken Paxlovid is likely familiar with the awful metallic taste that comes with taking it. This is from ritonavir.

The results, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, suggest that the treatment had fewer side effects than Paxlovid, the go-to antiviral for high-risk patients. Around 67% of ...