Pfizer's antiviral pill Paxlovid can reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms like organ damage, per a pre-print study released by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
can reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms like organ damage, according to a pre-print study the Department of Veterans Affairs released on Sunday.The study of 56,000 veterans who tested positive for the virus found those given the medication in the first five days of infection had a 25% decreased risk of developing 10 of 12 symptoms, such as heart, kidney or liver disease.
, which has been shown to reduce hospitalizations but also raised concerns about its contribution to COVID rebound.The study published on the pre-print server medRxiv has not yet been peer-reviewed and will need to be independently replicated.
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