shovelhd
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Western MA
I took Paxlovid the day after I started showing symptoms, and tested positive. I'm definitely not COVID paranoid but I was staining my 95 year old mother's deck at the time. I won't take any chances with her. so I finished the job and went straight to the rapid care. They drew blood to verify the infection, and to test my liver and kidneys before prescribing Paxlovid. I started it the next day. The next three days were sore throat and fever hell. Since I'll never know how much worse it could have been without Paxlovid, I'll never know if it helped. My take is, it didn't do very much. I also got the rebound 5 days later.
What surprised me was how much my tax dollars subsidized this whole thing. Rapid care visits aren't cheap. Blood draws and panels aren't cheap. Experimental treatments aren't cheap. Yet my total bill for everything was $23. That wouldn't even pay for the hour of the PCA's time.
What surprised me was how much my tax dollars subsidized this whole thing. Rapid care visits aren't cheap. Blood draws and panels aren't cheap. Experimental treatments aren't cheap. Yet my total bill for everything was $23. That wouldn't even pay for the hour of the PCA's time.
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