Another summer outbreak of COVID-19 is here. President Biden announced he is sick with the virus on Wednesday, and he’s in good company.
Test positivity rates are up across the country, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, with rates especially high in California, New Mexico, and Nevada, where President Biden was traveling on Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Wednesday that the president “has received his first dose” of Paxlovid, the antiviral treatment from Pfizer that’s meant to ease COVID-19 symptoms and make the virus less dangerous for high-risk patients.
But some experts wonder why you’d even prescribe this drug, which has been shown in study after study to be lackluster, at best.
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