White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci confirmed on Tuesday that he is suffering from “Covid rebound” symptoms after being treated with Paxlovid and is now feeling “much worse” than before the treatment. MailOnline has the story.
Paxlovid, a drug that was anointed as America’s silver bullet against COVID-19 by some health officials and even President Joe Biden, may not have any effectiveness for people that are already vaccinated, according its manufacturer Pfizer’s own data.
Fauci, 81, broke the news [of his new positive test] while speaking remotely at the Foreign Policy Global Health Forum.
Earlier this month, Fauci tested positive for the virus with mild symptoms including fatigue. As his symptoms got slightly worse, Fauci began a five day course of Paxlovid.
Following that course, Fauci said that he tested negative for the virus three days in a row. He decided to test again on the fourth day. The result came back positive.
In May, the Centers for Disease Control issued a formal warning regarding a COVID-19 rebound as result of a course of Paxlovid.
The agency said that some patients who were prescribed Paxlovid suffered a recurrence of symptoms or tested positive for Covid between two and eight days after recovery.
The CDC announcement said that there was not enough data to make a conclusion on the cause for the rebound. The agency noted that none of the reported rebound cases saw patients suffer a severe recurrence.
In his announcement about his Covid rebound, Fauci said that his symptoms were “much worse” after he tested positive for the second time.
According to a June 22nd University of California San Diego School of Medicine study, COVID-19 rebound symptoms after a course of Paxlovid are caused because not enough of the drug was getting to infected cells to stop all viral replication. The study refers to this as a lack of exposure to the drug.
The day after that study was published, Pfizer published its Phase 2/3 Paxlovid trial data. The data analysed Paxlovid’s ability to prevent hospitalisation or death depending on a person’s vaccination status and individual risk profile. It found that a fully vaccinated person with little personal risk had little to gain from using the drug.
Paxlovid is to be used by a Covid positive person to limit symptoms and prevent them from becoming serious enough to require intense medical care. The drug received emergency use authorization in late 2021. Biden has propped it up during his 2022 State of the Union address as one of the keys to America’s Covid response, even offering it for free to anyone who tests positive for the virus.
Last Thursday, during the initial bout of illness, Dr. Fauci told the Senate Health, Education, Labour, and Pensions Committee that:
I’m still feeling really quite fine. I think I´m an example, given my age, of what we´re all talking about today. I´m vaccinated. I´m doubly boosted. And I believe if that were not the case, I very likely would not be talking to you looking as well as I look, I think, right now. So all is well with Fauci.
His illness has become worse in recent days.
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Oh dear. Nothing trivial, I hope…
Hahaha it couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke….I mean, honestly we truly live in the age of stupid…how are these fu**ing charlatans getting away with this?….nothing they have made people take has worked, and yet they still get to talk as though it does, and they get airtime, and people go along as if they have something useful to say…..
My blood is boiling….!!!
Rubbish.
He hasn’t taken anything and he’s probably not been ill.
He wants people to believe he took all of Pharma’s Best, so he can build a defence of complete ignorance of side effects.
“Fauci said that his symptoms were “much worse” – did anyone tell Pfauci that that is a really good sign and simply means that the drug is working properly? After all, that’s what they said about the vaxx-that’s-not-a-vaxx, so the fact that pfaxlovid makes you feel ill and doesn’t eradicate the virus means the drug works and is safe and effective. I’m just waiting to hear Pfauci say (again) how much worse he’d be feeling if he weren’t 4x vaxxed and pfaxlovided up.
This guy is a liar. Someone who can meaningfully be described as sick, let alone sick with worse than usual symptoms, would certainly not do live press releases. Even during the Omicron-sub-something-pseudocold I recently had, my voice was sufficiently impaired that talking was cumbersome and hence, I tried to avoid it. I wouldn’t have called myself sick at that time, though.
But then, I’m not trying to promote a very aggressive vaccination campaign.
And a not very clever tradesman. Selling more of something on the grounds that you need more of it because it doesn’t work very well……
That’s because he’s really trying to sell something else. As even someone who’s double-vaxxed, quadruple-boostered and twice paxlovided gets such horrible symptoms that he can barely speak in public anymore, the usual NPIs are urgently called for, especially – tata! – Face coverings to the rescue!!1 and shutting down and locking up the inessential once again can’t hurt, either. The clinically extremely stupid have to be protected from accidentally exposing themselves to more intelligent lifeforms. Such as cold viruses.
The public health agencies proved with their incessant flu-vaccine marketing campaign that the worse the efficacy of said vaccine is, the more people will line up to buy the worthless product.
I don’t believe Fauci has been anywhere near a C1984 pharmaceutical product EVER but it would be wonderful news if he was truly poorly with something really, really dreadful.
If Only !!.. Come on fate let’s see one of these protagonists receive their just deserts !
Clearly, he needs to be put on a ventilator.
Hear hear!!
Connected via his anal sphincter preferably
I hope it’s terminal.
Plonker! Nothing trivial I hope.
The cockroach is a fool. Time for the cockroach to retire to wherever cockroaches retire to, he is not fit for purpose. Trump,should have done the right thing and stepped on this cockroach before he could cause any further damage to America.
I know someone who actually believes that if you didn’t have the vaccines that you’d be much worse when you did catch Covid. Her sister-in-law has Covid again for the third or fourth time and has been jabbed and boostered 4 times in total. Both of them are hoping for boosters to see them through the winter. They walk among us…
They’re everywhere …. like zombies in “The Walking Dead.”
Ha ha..biter bit .
Is there a god ???
But he’s science remember, so it must be reality that’s wrong here.
I still love the mask he’s wearing in the photo the DS uses. If we didn’t know this man was “The Science,” the mask let’s us know.
O no, I hope he doesnt die without him the world would never have survived the pandemic, A TRUE Hero.
The LIGHTER SIDE OF COVID ….
Fauci just got “Rebound Covid” and we’ve all been reading for a long time about “Long Covid.” This got me thinking about all the different names and flavors of Covid.
Even before we had Covid proper, we had “Corona,” which sounded too much like the beer so we went back to Covid, which sounded like nothing anyone had ever heard before, but it had a good bite to it so everyone signed off on the name of our pandemic. Then we had Asymptomatic Covid, Symptomatic Covid, Alpha Covid; skipped to Omicron Covid and then circled back to Delta Covid, leaving off Chi and Mu Covid, but we’ll get to those.
I couldn’t resist coming up with my own names for different types of Covid. These, as you can probably tell, just popped into my head … perhaps a symptom of Brain-Fog Covid? I placed some of my names into “Covid Categories.”
COVID NAMES:
Little Bitty Covid
Sneaky Covid
Long Dong Covid
Existential Covid
Bubonic Covid
All-You-Can-Eat Covid
Newman’s Own Covid
Milk Toast Covid
Plain Jane Covid
Maskless Covid
Kung Fu Covid
Iran Contra Covid
Branch Davidian Covid
Sultan of Swat Covid
Virgin Covid
Promiscuous Covid
Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em Covid
Magnanimous Covid
Miscellaneous Covid
Indifferent Covid
Big Muddy Covid
Lonestar Covid
Covid by the Numbers …
747 Covid
007 Covid
867-5309 Covid
Covid by Letters and Numbers …
LGBTQ1 Covid
4H Covid
N-95 Covid
Cinematic Covid
Full Metal Jacket Covid
Escape to Witch Mountain Covid
The Empire Strikes Back Covid
Shane Covid
Animal Kingdom Covids …
Feline Covid
Bovine Covid
Lone Wolf Covid
Elephantitis Covid
Werewolves of London Covid
Largemouth Bass Covid
Grasshopper Covid
Spider Covid
Monkey Pox Covid
The Hues of Covid …
Pink Covid
Rainbow Covid
Earth-Tone Covid
C-Covids …
Captain Covid
Caramel Covid
Crimson Covid
Celebrity Covid
Coach Covid
Cold Beer Covid
Cosa Nostra Covid
Coastal Carolina Covid
A-Covids …
Apoplectic Covid
Agnostic Covid
(Sisters of) Alpha Gamma Delta Covid
V-Covids ….
Vaxxed Covid
Vampire Covid
Vendetta Covid
Musical Covid …
Long Tall Covid
Funky Cole Medina Covid
Devil With a Blue Dress Covid
For the Benefit of Mr. Kite Covid
WearWolves of London Covid
Big Bopper Covid
You Ain’t Nothing But a Houndog Covid
Give Peace a Chance Covid
It’s a Small World After All Covid
Old Blue Eyes Covid
Sexy Sadie Covid
Literary Covid
Prairie Home Companion Covid
Catcher in the Rye Covid
Lolita Covid
World According to Garp Covid
Covid on TV …
Horeshack Covid
Six Million Dollar Man Covid
Stranger Things Covid
Dateline Covid
Dynasty Covid
Let’s Make a Deal Covid
Dr. Welby, M.D. Covid
Lassie Covid
Pioneer Woman Covid
… At some point, I just had to stop … Cease and Desist Covid … Irreverent, “Silly Bill” reverts to boring, idealistic “Save-the-World” Bill … Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde Covid?
Whilst the story is interesting and indicative of the fact that the treatments and vaccines are less effective than they’ve been touted, I’m very disappointed at the tone of some of the comments. “Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke” and similar are really uncalled for.
Actually, something much worse would be called for. This guy is responsible for untold suffering of millions of people and for thousands, if not ten-thousands of perfectly avoidable deaths. Eg, are you aware that nosebleeding is a routine side effect of nasal swabbing? So routine, actually, that – at some point in time – the UK government testing advice asked people whose noses were still bleeding from the last test to use the other nostril next time. Can you imagine how it feels to an elementary school kid not at risk of anything and no danger to anyone when it’s being grabbed by the same adults day after day after day and gets something stuck up its nose until it hurts and sometimes, until it bleeds? That’s seriously the stuff of nightmares. Or horror movies. And it’s not that he’d be feeling any remorse for this. Unfortunately, some sarcifices of lesser beings had to be made.
… not worse enough in my opinion.
It’s not looking good for Fauci. Terminal?
Perhaps he has outdone his usefulness to the Davos Deviants. He certainly has potential as a damage creator.
Fauci exists stage left.
Ah well for the good of all.