Anthony Fauci says that he's experienced rebound Covid symptoms after taking a Pfizer's antiviral Paxlovid
Source: https://t.co/bJ5jGj3TOJ pic.twitter.com/utGxPRDEkj— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) June 29, 2022
Has Fauci gone rogue?
Why is he attacking his own pills?
The quadruple-vaccinated Dr. Anthony Fauci said he is experiencing a “much worse” COVID rebound after being treated with Pfizer’s antiviral medication Paxlovid.
The 81-year-old chief medical adviser to the White House revealed his health struggles while speaking remotely at the Foreign Policy Global Health Forum on Tuesday.
The nation’s leading infectious disease expert tested positive for COVID-19 on June 15 and was initially experiencing mild symptoms, according to a statement released at the time by the National Institutes of Health.
When his condition took a turn for the worse, he began a five-day course of Paxlovid, which was granted an emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug administration in December 2021 to treat high-risk COVID patients in an effort to prevent hospitalizations and deaths.
Fauci said Tuesday that after he recovered from his initial bout with the coronavirus, he tested negative for three days, but then tested positive again on the fourth day, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
“And then over the next day or so, I started to feel really poorly, much worse than in the first go-around,” Fauci said. “So I went back on Paxlovid and right now I am on my fourth day of a five-day course.”
The scientist added that he is feeling better but “not completely without symptoms.”
In April, the Biden administration announced it was expanding the availability of Paxlovid, touting it as “one of the most effective treatments in our nation’s medicine cabinet.”
A month later, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning regarding a COVID-19 rebound after Paxlovid treatment.
The agency said some patients who were prescribed a course of Paxlovid experienced a recurrence of COVID symptoms or tested positive for the disease between two and eight days after the initial recovery.
The CDC suggested that “a brief return of symptoms may be part of the natural history of (COVID-19) infection in some persons, independent of treatment with Paxlovid and regardless of vaccination status.”
In other words, that means it’s working.
Well, he didn’t take enough. He is also due for his fifth jab.
— MotoAkasaka (@moto_akasaka) June 29, 2022
At least now after his rare breakthrough infection he will have super immunity. Then the second break through infection he will have super duper immunity
— The science (@The____science) June 29, 2022
So he is fully vaxxed and has taken Paxlovid but still has Covid. Working well then… 🤡🌏
— Have you run the numbers? (@2016allchange) June 29, 2022
Vaxxed and boosted. Safe and effective!
— hockeylawdog (@hockeylawdog) June 29, 2022
This is all I think of when I see #Fauci pic.twitter.com/pwhVYIrOHs
— cmkittycat (@cmkittycat) June 29, 2022
Safe and effective lmfao 🤣
— Bigbri 🇬🇧 (@Bigbri02782995) June 29, 2022
Has he?
I thought all this had been tested and was in no way ‘experimental’.— Markus Fleming (@Fleming9Markus) June 29, 2022
I don’t believe Fauci
— Milla (@MillUKR) June 29, 2022
I’ve got a cold and I’m taking nothing. It will go on its own.
— Lady Jayne of Gloucester; Veteran (@jhsmith156) June 29, 2022