So the NH is getting hit hard with COVID positive cases and of course mom is one of them. She has been vaccinated and has the boosters however the NH is wanting to start her on Paxlovid to prevent any serious side affects. As of this AM she was asymptomatic but just don't know if we feel okay with giving her this. We've talked to the Dr's and they seem to think it is the route to take and the protocol that they follow and of course they need to know today if we are ok with this.
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The cdc has been clear from the start that pavloxid most benefits people on Medicare who utilize Medicare the most, including the severely immunocompromised.
My BIL (obese, on warfarin, early kidney disease) did not even think to ask for it and the doctor he spoke to didn't offer it. He was ill but nothing major.
I just got over Covid a couple of weeks ago. I never had Paxlovid, never felt all that bad, and didn't even get a cough until Day 12. I tested negative at last on Day 14 while still coughing a bit, and now a month after I first got it, I'm fine except for having little sense of taste.
Not to mention, if a person is 'asymptomatic', up until now, that means she's NOT SICK. Yet in the current Covid climate, the 'experts' take it to mean the person IS sick and should take all sorts of treatments!
Do whatever you'd like with regard to your mother, but I just thought I'd tell you what the Mayo Clinic had to recommend for my DH.
Wishing your mom the best of luck.
The truth is, they really don't know.
https://www.goodrx.com/paxlovid/known-side-effects
I think it's a lot like deciding whether or not to take tamiflu when you've had a vaccine but there is influenza in your facility, it comes down to evaluating your personal risk.
YRMV.