As Orange County moves into the 'medium' tier of COVID activity, health professionals are encouraging patients to contact their physicians for therapeutic medications that help lessen symptoms and prevent potential longterm sickness.
As coronavirus cases continue to rise across the Southland, some health officials say that there are now therapeutic medications that can help lessen the symptoms and hopefully prevent long term sickness.
While they maintain that key to avoid getting sick is getting vaccinated and boosted, doctors are also raising public awareness of the effects of Paxlovid, which they believe can treat the virus within the first five days of contracting the virus. "Paxlovid is now more widely available than it was before," said Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, Chief Medical Officer of Orange County Health Care Agency."What it does is it reduces hospitalizations eight times, so, we're hoping to offload our hospitals and get people treated sooner."
According to OCHA, since November 1, the number of Orange County has experienced a dramatic increase in reported COVID-19 cases. ICU cases have jumped 153%. This increase in cases caused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to move Orange County from the"low" tier of COVID activity to the"medium" tier on Friday, a
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