josepdelafuente
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
To be fair, I know of no evidence for PWME being more at risk with Covid. Categories like 'immune' or 'neurological' are too vague to be relevant. We don't have any strong theoretical reason to think PWME would be more at risk either. If anything on the theoretical side there is a reasonable argument that PWME are more likely to get an adverse reaction.
So I don't think this need have anything to do with dismissing ME. If I were to make the decision I would not advise PWME that they should take an antiviral any more than anyone else. I don't know the general evidence on Plaxlovid but it is quite likely hyped or still unclear.
Good to know. When you say "at risk", do you mean at risk of a severe acute infection?
And by "adverse reaction", do you mean an adverse reaction to paxlovid (rather than to covid infection)?
My concern was more to do with potential long-term effects - like having long covid "on top of" ME, which seems to be what happened the first time I had covid..
And therefore hoping that an "anti-viral" drug might reduce the risk of long term worsening of ME etc..