{"id":10568,"date":"2025-10-15T19:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:10:26","slug":"nirmatrelvir-ritonavir-reduces-long-covid-risk-in-older-adults-not-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/15\/nirmatrelvir-ritonavir-reduces-long-covid-risk-in-older-adults-not-adolescents\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir Reduces Long COVID Risk in Older Adults, Not Adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccineadvisor.com\/news\/nirmatrelvir-ritonavir-reduces-long-covid-risk-in-older-adults-not-adolescents\/\">Vaccine Advisor<\/a> In nonhospitalized patients, treatment of acute COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir reduced long COVID risk in older vs younger adults, supporting its use in high-risk patients to prevent both acute severity and long-term sequelae. Treatment of acute COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir is associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID in adults aged 50 years and older, but not in adolescents, according to study results published in&nbsp;<em>Open Forum Infectious Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long COVID encompasses more than 200 symptoms ranging from fatigue and shortness of breath to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. While the antiviral&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empr.com\/drug\/paxlovid\/#xd_co_f=MWRmODYyMjEtY2YzMy00ZDM0LTk4OTQtNTA3OGUwNDYxYWUw~\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nirmatrelvir-ritonavir<\/a>&nbsp;is well-established in reducing hospitalization and death in acute COVID-19, its potential to mitigate long-term sequelae remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccine Advisor In nonhospitalized patients, treatment of acute COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir reduced long COVID risk in older vs younger adults, supporting its use in high-risk patients to prevent both acute severity and long-term sequelae. Treatment of acute COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir is associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID in adults aged 50 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10569,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions\/10569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}