美國總統的首席醫療顧問安東尼·福奇博士于6月28日稱,他在服用幫助其康復的抗病毒藥物Paxlovid之后,新冠癥狀出現了反復。
他表示,用藥后的癥狀比最初的癥狀更加嚴重。
據彭博社(Bloomberg)報道,81歲的福奇在出席《外交政策》雜志(Foreign Policy)舉辦的全球健康論壇(Global Health Forum)活動時說:“服用Paxlovid五天之后,我連續三天抗原檢測結果都變成了陰性。但在第四天,為了萬無一失,我又進行了一次檢測。結果復陽了。”
然后他開始服用Paxlovid的第二個療程,這一次出現的癥狀“比第一次更加嚴重”。福奇表示,他到6月28日還感覺“相當良好”。
Paxlovid被批準用于治療高風險成年人新冠肺炎患者。它獲得了美國食品與藥品管理局(U.S. Food and Drug Administration)的緊急使用授權。
福奇因為年齡較大開了Paxlovid處方,這反而增加了新冠的嚴重后果對他的影響。據彭博社報道,福奇已經完成免疫,并接種了兩劑加強針。
今年6月初,該藥物的生產商輝瑞(Pfizer)宣布,將停止招募更多低入院治療和死亡風險的新冠患者試用這款藥物。彭博社報道稱,研究未能證明該藥可以從統計上顯著減少癥狀或住院與死亡比例。
美國疾病控制與預防中心(U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)在5月發布了一份與“新冠反彈”有關的健康建議,又被稱為“Paxlovid反彈”。
該建議書稱:“短暫出現癥狀可能是某些人感染SARS-CoV-2(導致新冠肺炎的病毒)的自然過程的一部分,與服用Paxlovid和疫苗接種情況無關。”
美國疾病控制與預防中心在建議書中表示,沒有證據證明反彈病例需要接受額外治療。根據這份指導意見,目前尚不確定,福奇為什么會第二輪服用Paxlovid。
該中心建議,服用Paxlovid后癥狀反復的患者需要再次隔離五天。(財富中文網)
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
美國總統的首席醫療顧問安東尼·福奇博士于6月28日稱,他在服用幫助其康復的抗病毒藥物Paxlovid之后,新冠癥狀出現了反復。
他表示,用藥后的癥狀比最初的癥狀更加嚴重。
據彭博社(Bloomberg)報道,81歲的福奇在出席《外交政策》雜志(Foreign Policy)舉辦的全球健康論壇(Global Health Forum)活動時說:“服用Paxlovid五天之后,我連續三天抗原檢測結果都變成了陰性。但在第四天,為了萬無一失,我又進行了一次檢測。結果復陽了。”
然后他開始服用Paxlovid的第二個療程,這一次出現的癥狀“比第一次更加嚴重”。福奇表示,他到6月28日還感覺“相當良好”。
Paxlovid被批準用于治療高風險成年人新冠肺炎患者。它獲得了美國食品與藥品管理局(U.S. Food and Drug Administration)的緊急使用授權。
福奇因為年齡較大開了Paxlovid處方,這反而增加了新冠的嚴重后果對他的影響。據彭博社報道,福奇已經完成免疫,并接種了兩劑加強針。
今年6月初,該藥物的生產商輝瑞(Pfizer)宣布,將停止招募更多低入院治療和死亡風險的新冠患者試用這款藥物。彭博社報道稱,研究未能證明該藥可以從統計上顯著減少癥狀或住院與死亡比例。
美國疾病控制與預防中心(U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)在5月發布了一份與“新冠反彈”有關的健康建議,又被稱為“Paxlovid反彈”。
該建議書稱:“短暫出現癥狀可能是某些人感染SARS-CoV-2(導致新冠肺炎的病毒)的自然過程的一部分,與服用Paxlovid和疫苗接種情況無關。”
美國疾病控制與預防中心在建議書中表示,沒有證據證明反彈病例需要接受額外治療。根據這份指導意見,目前尚不確定,福奇為什么會第二輪服用Paxlovid。
該中心建議,服用Paxlovid后癥狀反復的患者需要再次隔離五天。(財富中文網)
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
Chief presidential medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said on June 28 that he experienced a so-called Paxlovid rebound after he took the antiviral to aid his recovery from COVID.
The symptoms he developed after he took the pill were more severe than those he had initially, he said.
“After I finished the five days of Paxlovid, I reverted to negative on an antigen test for three days in a row,” Fauci, 81, said during an event at Foreign Policy’s Global Health Forum, Bloomberg reported. “And then on the fourth day, just to be absolutely certain, I tested myself again. I reverted back to positive.”
He then began a second course of Paxlovid when symptoms emerged “much worse than the first go-around,” he said. Fauci said he was feeling “reasonably good” as of June 28.
Paxlovid is a pill approved for treatment of COVID-19 in high-risk adults. It has emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Fauci was prescribed Paxlovid owing to his advanced age, which puts him at greater risk for a severe outcome from COVID. He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted, Bloomberg reported.
Earlier June Pfizer, which manufactures the medication, announced that it would stop adding new participants to a trial of the drug among COVID patients at low risk of hospitalization and death. The study failed to demonstrate that the drug reduced symptoms, or hospitalizations and deaths in a statistically significant way, according to Bloomberg.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May issued a health advisory regarding “COVID-19 rebound,” also known as “Paxlovid rebound.”
But “a brief return of symptoms may be part of the natural history of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infection in some persons, independent of treatment with Paxlovid and regardless of vaccination status,” the advisory stated.
There is no evidence that additional treatment is needed for rebound cases, the CDC said in the advisory. It is unclear why Fauci took a second course of Paxlovid, in light of this guidance.
Patients who rebound after taking Paxlovid will need to isolate again for five days, according to the CDC.