{"id":8879,"date":"2025-03-05T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:32:23","slug":"paxlovid-may-not-reduce-hospitalization-risk-for-vaccinated-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/05\/paxlovid-may-not-reduce-hospitalization-risk-for-vaccinated-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxlovid may not reduce hospitalization risk for vaccinated older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/03\/05\/paxlovid-hospitalizations-deaths-older-adults-study\/\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study suggests Paxlovid may not reduce risk of covid hospitalizations and all-cause deaths in vaccinated adults ages 65 to 74. Paxlovid, the five-day antiviral treatment for covid, may not reduce the risk of covid-related hospitalizations and all-cause deaths in vaccinated older adults, a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2830683\">study<\/a>&nbsp;suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paxlovid \u2014 Pfizer\u2019s combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir \u2014 has been found to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35172054\/\">reduce<\/a>&nbsp;symptoms, hospitalizations and deaths in unvaccinated, at-risk patients. However, a Pfizer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2309003\">trial<\/a>&nbsp;published in 2024 found the medication didn\u2019t significantly shorten the duration of symptoms in vaccinated adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/03\/05\/paxlovid-hospitalizations-deaths-older-adults-study\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post A new study suggests Paxlovid may not reduce risk of covid hospitalizations and all-cause deaths in vaccinated adults ages 65 to 74. Paxlovid, the five-day antiviral treatment for covid, may not reduce the risk of covid-related hospitalizations and all-cause deaths in vaccinated older adults, a new&nbsp;study&nbsp;suggests. Paxlovid \u2014 Pfizer\u2019s combination of nirmatrelvir and [&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-8879","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\/8879","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=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}