I tested positive today. So far, the symptoms aren’t bad. They’re supposed to be delivering the pax tomorrow.
Am I the only one who has trouble remembering the lovid part because of Serenity?
For those of you who received Paxlovid, how difficult/not difficult was it to obtain? I’ve heard that it’s fastest to go to urgent care rather than try to get an appointment with your own GP.
I haven’t caught Covid yet, but I’ve emailed my GP’s office to see how they’d deal with it. It looks like I just call him if I test positive and he’ll call in a prescription. But it’s good to have the urgent care option as a backup in case something goes pear-shaped. Also, Mr. brown doesn’t have a regular GP, so he’d have to resort to urgent care.
I tested positive around breakfast and took my first dose of Paxlovid with dinner.
I went to immediate care after my positive home test, but was told to return at 3:30. 
When I returned and was tested, the doc had me stay about 20 minutes for the results as he anticipated prescribing Paxlovid. He did, and sent the prescription to my preferred pharmacy.
I went to the pharmacy upon leaving the clinic, but was told after a 15 minute wait it would be ready in 15 minutes. Returned after a half-hour (pharmacy was mobbed and I thought their estimate unrealistic) and got my Paxlovid.
Fairly non-difficult.
About the same for me. I woke up feeling not right and confirmed with a rapid test. My GP recently retired, so I just got the first appointment I could through my company’s medical service and got a video appointment for that afternoon. Doc took my word for it and sent the prescription straight to the pharmacy. I’m not particularly at risk age-wise, but being a cancer survivor may have swung things, if it was needed. My partner picked up the prescription after work and I started it immediately.
Try using the test-to-treat locator. It can locate one-stop sources for getting Paxlovid. With many people pharmacists can dispense it without needing a traditional prescription from a doctor.
I have never had it, never tested positive, and I have an experimental vaccine in my veins, one which only… as far as I can surmise… only 3,000 Americans have. Given this is a medical study, I get tested for COVID antibodies every other month and, yeah, never had it.
Oh, cool. What vaccine do you have?
(I have an experimental booster, but it’s J&J. I don’t think many people got an initial mRNA series and a J&J booster, but lots of people got an initial J&J shot.)
Novartis:
They lost the race to market/FDA approval, and are doing secondary manufacturing for Pfizer’s vaccine, but the clinical trial still goes on.
Novavax did get an EUA
Overview of COVID-19 Vaccines | CDC
Novavax Fact Sheet Recipients 12 and Older (fda.gov)
But really late. The FDA pretty much said, “we have enough vaccines” when they might have initially granted it an EUA. So it wasn’t made available until almost everyone who wanted to be vaccinated had done so.
In theory, there might be a small market of people who don’t trust newfangled vaccine technology, I suppose. And once we have to pay for vaccines, Novavax may have an edge for boosters (not yet approved, but it’s in the works) because it’s effectively a lot cheaper. It doesn’t need to be shipped and stored frozen.
Friday - fatigue - tested negative.
Saturday - more symptoms - tested negative.
Sunday, about noon - tested positive.
With Kaiser, the drill was to phone the customer service line and get called back by a doctor. Since everyone in the household was positive, they set up delivery of the paxlovid. They kept saying that it might not come until Monday, but it arrived before five.
I’ve, so far, somehow managed to avoid it despite working retail and sharing a very tiny office with multiple people, including one that did have it.
I’m really curious to see if I had it at some point and just didn’t realize it, but I assume that can’t be tested for since I’m fully vaccinated.
I did, however, donate blood/plasma multiple times, including well after the other person in the office was sick (but before being vaccinated), and it always came back negative for antibodies.
Finally got it 3 weeks ago, lost a lot of my smell, but not completely, thanks to having vaccines and boosteers I did not feel as bad as it could be. Some sinus pain, and stuffiness has been a bit stubborn and has hanged around.
My doctor did not advise the latest anti viral medication 
Must be a little fog remaining from the time I was sick, I meant to say that: it was curious to me that the doctor did not offer me the latest anti viral medicine like others said in this thread and elsewhere.
Paxlovid had been shown to reduce the risk of death among those at high risk of death. It hasn’t been shown to be helpful to those at low risk of death, and there’s at least a theoretical reason to think it may increase the odds of some types of long covid.
(Some long covid symptoms appear to be due to your immune system overreacting. If your viral load drops suddenly, your immune system might be “confused”, and not turn off properly. That might be why some people with long covid have been helped by the vaccine, it kind of kicks the immune system.)
So it’s mostly offered to people at higher risk. I have friends who caught covid at the same time, and the wife was given paxlovid and the husband wasn’t. She’s immune compromised and a couple years older than he is. And he recovered faster than she did, because he got sick and then got better, whereas she got sick, got treated, got better, got rebound, and then gradually got better again.
I held out until yesterday, October 25. I tested positive.
I am a public school teacher and this was an impressive run of no-covid. My symptoms are on the mild side of Covid, probably due to my vaccinations.
Still, it blows. I’m out sick from work, who don’t even require a negative test to come back anymore.
Had the five shots, went to our annual golf dustup which was postponed for two years because…
Had very mild symptoms the Monday after, really sniffles and sort of a weak sore throat. 24 hours and I was fine. Wednesday group email said two others (of 40) tested positive. Home test, yeow, you could see the “faint” lines from the space station. Never would have tested without the others being positive.
Flew to NYC and back for a 5-day trip. Did not wear a mask once. Not in the airports or on the planes, in the theater, crowded Times Square, museums, subway… Developed a VERY mild cold shortly after returning, but still negative. Wife didn’t catch my cold.
I think I’m doing something wrong! 
It’s really not that unusual. I know plenty of people who have never caught it and are around people all the time. My youngest has managed not to catch it despite being around 3 of us with COVID and going to a school unmasked. Heck, my elderly parents haven’t even gotten vaccinated and managed so far not to get it. It happens often enough.
Is it negative with pcr tests?
In the case of my daughter it was negative on two PCR and rapid (both at the same time) tests. She was with us the whole time we were sick and unmasked. I know several cases like this. My wife tested neg on rapid, but positive on PCR.