I think it was for me and I’d take it again for a few reasons.
First, I thought I was just feeling bad from jet lag and didn’t test until I had a fever. It started spiking and I quickly started feeling awful. Once I had a couple doses of Paxlovid in me, the fever was easier to control and I gradually started feeling better. It seemed to help.

I’ve also read a lot about Covid and Paxlovid and rebound in past few days. Paxlovid studies show it’s been very effective in decreasing hospital admissions and death. The average date of admission toICU for severe Covid is 8-12 days. My rebound was day 9 or 10. I have 3 risk factors for severe disease and despite rebound being discouraging and making me tired, it’s sure easier than fighting for air in ICU.

Lastly, I’m retired from health care and the stories from staff, overwhelmed with patients and with woefully inadequate resources during the early pandemic, have stayed with me. We lost a cousin and a friend of my brother died. I couldn’t help then, but I can take the immunizations and meds my competent pulmonologist recommends. I understand others may chose differently (and I could change my mind).

My son-in-law, with one risk factor for severe disease, declined Paxlovid his second time because of GI issues his first time on it. He did OK.

@irenea8 Last year or maybe the year before last I had a mild case of covid and doctor put me on paxlovid. Yes, I rebounded and the 2nd time was much worse than the first time. Then I regretted being on paxlovid but hindsight is 20/20 and the my PCP was trying to prevent severe symptoms, hospitalization etc. The problem is that if you are going to benefit from paxlovid you need to start it at the very beginning of a covid diagnosis.

I'm not sure what I might do this time around. On one hand twice a day air clearance is an excellent way to keep the airways open. On the other, respiratory symptoms can progress pretty quickly. Have you been on paxlovid?