How well do COVID antivirals actually work? Not as well as we thought

NicolasMcComber/Getty Images If you’re aged over 70, or over 50 with underlying health conditions, and have tested positive for COVID, you might have been offered free or subsidised antivirals. Earlier in the pandemic, these medicines were an important way to reduce the chance of people becoming severely ill with COVID, needing to be hospitalised, or dying. But our new research suggests that with high levels of vaccination and immunity from previous infections, COVID antivirals are no longer…