In two equally sized and carefully matched groups of vaccinated people with Omicron at high risk for Covid complications, none of those who received Paxlovid died over the next 30 days - compared to 10 people who did not get the medicine. The people who received Paxlovid also had about a 45 percent lower chance of visiting a hospital emergency room.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that death and hospitalization rates were strikingly high among the vaccinated people who did NOT receive Paxlovid, even though they were relatively young. The researchers tracked 1,130 people in each group, so 10 deaths is a mortality rate of almost 1 percent in the group that didn’t receive Paxlovid.
(Ten dead is more than zero dead:) (2/4)
