{"id":1533743,"date":"2022-06-30T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533743"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:19:35","slug":"much-worse-than-1st-go-around-fauci-taking-2nd-course-of-paxlovid-after-virus-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/much-worse-than-1st-go-around-fauci-taking-2nd-course-of-paxlovid-after-virus-rebound\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Much Worse Than 1st Go Around\u2019: Fauci Taking 2nd Course Of Paxlovid After Virus \u2018Rebound\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmuch-worse-than-1st-go-around-fauci-taking-2nd-course-of-paxlovid-after-virus-rebound%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, 81, contracted COVID earlier this month, he decided to take Paxlovid, Pfizer\u2019s antiviral for people who are at greater risk of complications.<\/p>\n<p>He had minimal symptoms at first, but took the drug when he began to feel worse. After the five-day course of the drug, he said he felt \u201creally quite well\u201d for a while, aside from some fatigue and a bit of congestion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, after testing negative for three consecutive days, Fauci said he decided to take one more test out of precaution and subsequently found himself positive again on the fourth day,\u201d ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/fauci-taking-2nd-paxlovid-experiencing-rebound-antiviral-treatment\/story?id=85922417\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was sort of what people are referring to as a Paxlovid rebound,\u201d Fauci said during a remote interview with the Foreign Policy Global Health Forum on Tuesday, ABC reported. \u201cOver the course of the next day, he began to feel \u2018really poorly,\u2019 and \u2018much worse than in the first go around,\u2019 he added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news site noted that Paxlovid \u201cis authorized in the U.S. for people with mild-to-moderate symptoms of COVID-19, who are at significant risk of progressing to severe illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Fauci has come out since to dispel doubts about Paxlovid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaxlovid did what it was supposed to do,\u201d Fauci, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/30\/world\/covid-19-mandates-vaccine-cases\">told<\/a> The New York Times, adding that the treatment \u201ckept him out of the hospital when he first tested positive for the virus on June 15.\u201d He added that he thought the drug also reduced the severity of his initial symptoms. Fauci reportedly received a second course of Paxlovid after his rebound.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has noted \u201cthe potential for recurrence of Covid-19 or \u2018Covid-19 rebound,&#8217;\u201d with Paxlovid. \u201cIt issued an emergency health advisory that described the phenomenon as \u201ca recurrence of symptoms or a new positive viral test after having tested negative\u201d when the initial diagnosis was in the past two weeks,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s comments came shortly after a panel of independent advisers that works with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended producing new COVID vaccines to target the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>By a 19-2 vote, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) approved a plan to have new vaccines ready by early October. The panel said the newly formulated vaccines are needed because new subvariants of the Omicron strain appear to be able to bypass antibodies delivered via previous vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>That would mean Americans could be urged to take a fourth shot, with fifth shots for the immunocompromised and people over 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, 81, contracted COVID earlier this month, he decided to take Paxlovid, Pfizer\u2019s antiviral for people who are at greater risk of complications. He had minimal symptoms at first, but took the drug when he began to feel worse. After the five-day course of the drug, he said he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1533844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}