This is a story about a COVID-19 medication, a nasty trick the coronavirus sometimes plays on its victims, and how the two became a pandemic couple called "Paxlovid rebound."
It's also a story about how looks can be deceiving.
Americans have been quick to embrace the idea that the antiviral drug is to blame for COVID-19 relapses in people just days after they've seemingly recovered. President Joe Biden was said to have experienced Paxlovid rebound this summer, after White House doctors declared him coronavirus-free. The same thing happened to Dr. Anthony Fauci and Stephen Colbert, among others.
