Pfizer’s go-to antiviral drug treatment, Paxlovid, is leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths. Literally.
The Pfizer antiviral medication is used to treat people infected with COVID-19 — but as some patients have noted, the drug’s nasty taste remains in your mouth for as long as you take it.
Patients who have taken the drug, which lowers the risk of a severe reaction to the deadly disease, described the unpleasant aftertaste as “a mouthful of dirty pennies and rotten soymilk” in a new Wall Street Journal report.
Luckily, many of those affected have exchanged their coping methods online, such as consuming copious amounts of cinnamon, wolfing down pineapple or chugging smoothies, all to erase the taste that just won’t quit.
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