‘You Don’t Need To Suffer’: Doctors Predict More Use Of Covid Treatments In Hawaii 0 The two approved oral antiviral treatments for Covid must be taken within five days of the onset of symptoms.
When Stephanie Launiu contracted Covid-19 in early June, she was at a loss about what to do. A day later, when her 93-year-old mother also tested positive for the virus, Launiu called her sister in California. It was then that the Hilo resident realized that at-home treatments for Covid existed.
Within 24 hours, Launiu said the pair had received prescriptions for antiviral pills, taken the first rounds of their medications and were feeling great.
Hawaii receives two oral antiviral treatments from the federal government, Paxlovid and Lagevrio, which both received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration in December. Amid the spread of the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, local doctors predict a potential rise in the number of prescriptions for the pills in the coming weeks.
