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<p>A new study by investigators from <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/">Mass General Brigham</a> found that one in five individuals taking Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir therapy, commonly known as Paxlovid, to treat severe symptoms of COVID-19, experienced a positive test result and shedding of live and potentially contagious virus following an initial recovery and negative test—a phenomenon known as virologic rebound. By contrast, people not taking Paxlovid only experienced rebound about 2 percent of the time. Results are published in <a href="https://www.acpjournals.org/journal/aim/authors1"><em>Annals of Internal Medicine</em></a>.</p> ....
A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham found that one in five individuals taking Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir therapy, commonly known as Paxlovid, to treat severe symptoms of COVID-19, experienced a positive test result and shedding of live and potentially contagious virus following an initial recovery and negative test-;a phenomenon known as virologic rebound. ....
People not taking Paxlovid experienced the viral rebound phenomenon only about two per cent of the time, the researchers at the Mass General Brigham hospital, Boston, US, found. Paxlovid, which is a Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir therapy taken orally, has been previously studied to be effective in reducing hospitalisation and death in severe COVID-19 infections. ....
A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham found that one in five individuals taking Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir therapy, commonly known as Paxlovid, to treat severe symptoms of COVID-19, experienced a positive test result and shedding of live and potentially contagious virus following an initial recovery and negative test a phenomenon known as virologic rebound. ....