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    Inside the Mind of an Anti-Paxxer

    Paxlovid can be a lifesaving treatment for COVID. Why do so many patients turn it down?
    by Rachel Gutman-Wei Nov 22, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Getty; Zuma Press, Inc. / Alamy; The Atlantic

    Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET on November 25, 2022

    Paxlovid is a paradoxlovid. The game-changing antiviral swooped in during the pandemic’s worst winter with the promise of slowing COVID deaths to a trickle. But since it became widely available this spring, death rates have hardly budged.

    According to the White House, the problem is not the drug but the fact that are taking it. A found that from April to July, less than one-third of America’s 80-plus-year-olds with COVID ended up taking Paxlovid, even though they had the most to gain from doing so. What gives? Some Americans may be having trouble , but clearly, a significant proportion of patients and doctors are just saying no to antiviral drugs. There are no national statistics on Paxlovid refusal, so I talked with physicians around the country to learn more

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