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Indiana doctor explains Biden’s bout with COVID ‘rebound’
by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – First the check was constructive, then it got here again unfavorable, and now the outcomes are constructive as soon as once more.
That is what docs are referring to as a COVI-19 rebound.
“A rebound case means somebody who remains to be of their present an infection,” Dr. Christopher Doehring, vp of medical affairs at Franciscan Well being, advised Information 8. “Their testing can develop into unfavorable particularly in the event that they’ve been handled with Paxlovid, however their check returns to being constructive after they’ve stopped taking the drugs, very a lot much like what President (Joe) Biden skilled. That’s in distinction to a reinfection that occurs inside weeks or perhaps a month or two of a previous an infection, which might be two separate infections in that state of affairs.”
Doehring says Paxlovid suppresses the load of the virus to a level that it turns into undetectable. Nonetheless, as soon as the medicine is out of your system, typically the an infection re-emerges. This occurs when your physique hasn’t constructed up sufficient of its personal immunity to suppress the virus and remains to be counting on the Paxlovid.
Doehring says these occasions are unusual. He estimates round 10% of COVID-infected sufferers taking Paxlovid have skilled a rebound case.