Science

I felt like a cold was coming on Monday evening - scratchy throat, sneezing, fatigued, post nasal drip - felt feverish, found I had a 100 temp - took a home COVID test, was positive. Next day went to the doc - was confirmed - and started Paxlovid. It seemed to halt the symptoms - and by day 3, felt much better. Worst part was the metallic/bitter taste. My wife came down with it about 5 days later - home test positive - she took her last dose this AM. (I am 66, my wife 65, both healthy, no drug interactions).

So - mild to moderate cold symptoms for 3-4 days. We are both still a bit tired/dragging, but feel pretty good. Main thing is to see if we get the rebound. I feel that it did help - as my doc explained, even beyond the impacts, it seems to significantly reduce hospitalization and/or long COVID - that was enough of a selling point for us both.

And - we were both double vaxxed and triple boosted - took three years for us to get it. I suspect it is the newer Kraken super virulent strain.

I never did work on these type molecules in my chemistry years at gsk.