Health systems around the country are rushing out same-day prescription deliveries.
Some clinics have started testing and treating patients in one visit,The goal is to get patients started on either Pfizer’s Paxlovid tablets or Merck’s molnupiravir capsulesof symptoms appearing. That can prevent people with big health risks from growing sicker and filling up hospitals if another surge develops.
Stanford’s Dr. Thomas Lew said he’s seen high-risk and unvaccinated people who have waited more than a week. Some hospitalized patients on oxygen have told him they thought nothing of their first symptoms.“They say everyone in the family decided it was a cold or allergy season is coming up, but it was COVID all along,” he said.
Jeff Carlson couldn’t try Paxlovid when COVID-19 hit him in January because it might interfere with his heart medications. The 61-year-old suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, resident has Type 1 diabetes and heart disease.A doctor asked him to try molnupiravir about three days after he started feeling symptoms. By then, Carlson couldn’t get off his couch. His fever had soared and he was struggling to breathe.“It turned me around basically in a matter of ...
Other retailers like the grocer Kroger also plan to test and treat at some locations. The Biden administration has called for federally qualified community health centers to do the same, but Health Secretary Xavier Becerra
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