The bad taste may come on shortly after people take their first set of pills. But Paxlovid-takers told me it’s absolutely dysgeusting. A Pfizer spokesperson assured me that “most events were mild” and “very few patients discontinued study as a result” the outer packaging of the drug doesn’t mention it at all, and the patient fact sheet breezes past it. In Pfizer’s clinical trials, about 5.6 percent of patients reported an “altered sense of taste,” called dysgeusia in the medical literature. Also, it might make your mouth taste like absolute garbage the whole time you’re taking the pills. For adults without risk-heightening factors, it reduces that likelihood by 70 percent. Paxlovid cuts a vulnerable adult’s chances of hospitalization or death from COVID by nearly 90 percent if taken in the first few days of an infection. More than two years into this pandemic, we finally have an antiviral treatment that works pretty darn well.
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