Treatments Your Healthcare Provider Might Recommend if You Are Sick

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If you test positive and are an older adult or someone who is at high risk of getting very sick from COVID-19, treatment may be available. Contact a healthcare provider right away after a positive test to determine if you are eligible, even if your symptoms are mild right now.

You can also visit a Test to Treat location and, if eligible, receive a prescription from a provider.

Don’t delay: Treatment must be started within the first few days to be effective.

Antiviral Treatment

Antiviral medications target specific parts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to stop making copies of itself in your body. This may ease symptoms and shorten the length of a COVID-19 viral infection.

Oral antivirals are available with a prescription from a healthcare provider. Pills should be started as soon as possible after you test positive for COVID-19 and within 5 days after your first symptoms start.

Intravenous antiviral is available with a prescription from a health care provider. The treatment is given as an infusion over three days, should be started as soon as possible after you test positive for COVID-19, and within 7 days after your first symptoms start.

Contact your healthcare provider to discuss antiviral treatment options for COVID-19.

Monoclonal Antibody Treatment

There are currently no FDA authorized monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 available in the US.

Contact your healthcare provider to discuss other approved or authorized treatment options for COVID-19.

COVID-19 Preventive Medication

On January 26, the FDA announced that Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab) is no longer authorized for emergency use in the U.S. because it unlikely to be active against more than 90% of the SARS-CoV-2 variants currently circulating in the U.S. based on the latest CDC data. Please visit the FDA’s website for additional details.

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