Gearhead Jim
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For reasons too complicated to explain here, DW and I ended up booked for two overseas vacations this Fall.
The first was an 8 day river cruise in France, earlier this month. Despite having every Covid vaccination available by that time (6), we both developed strong Covid symptoms and confirmed by rapid test on the third day aboard the boat. We were in France, a modern industrialized country with good health care, so no problem, right? Wrong.
Getting Paxlovid (or anything else) for treatment took a full 24 hours and a lot of work and pushing on our part. Except for the boat spending two nights in one town and our persistence, we probably would have never received anything. Fortunately the drugs worked well and we recovered quickly to go home on time.
Now we are scheduled for 10 days in Jordan beginning at the end of October. Searching the web shows that Paxlovid is approved by the Jordanian CDC. But searching another travel web had people tell us that it's either not available at all, or only in a few large hospitals. Our group will be traveling around the country; Petra, one night in a Bedouin tent camp etc, and the tour company basically said that if we get sick, they drop us off at the next stop and we're on our own. With Paxlovid on hand, I'd consider that an acceptable risk even being in our late 70's. If we cancel this close to trip time, we'd lose a bunch of money.
Our family physician tells us she "can't" prescribe Paxlovid unless we are actually sick, so she's no help. All of the other treatments we might get have more side effects and marginal effectiveness.
Before I start searching around here, does anyone have ideas on how to get some Paxlovid to bring with us, to be used only if needed?
Thanks.
The first was an 8 day river cruise in France, earlier this month. Despite having every Covid vaccination available by that time (6), we both developed strong Covid symptoms and confirmed by rapid test on the third day aboard the boat. We were in France, a modern industrialized country with good health care, so no problem, right? Wrong.
Getting Paxlovid (or anything else) for treatment took a full 24 hours and a lot of work and pushing on our part. Except for the boat spending two nights in one town and our persistence, we probably would have never received anything. Fortunately the drugs worked well and we recovered quickly to go home on time.
Now we are scheduled for 10 days in Jordan beginning at the end of October. Searching the web shows that Paxlovid is approved by the Jordanian CDC. But searching another travel web had people tell us that it's either not available at all, or only in a few large hospitals. Our group will be traveling around the country; Petra, one night in a Bedouin tent camp etc, and the tour company basically said that if we get sick, they drop us off at the next stop and we're on our own. With Paxlovid on hand, I'd consider that an acceptable risk even being in our late 70's. If we cancel this close to trip time, we'd lose a bunch of money.
Our family physician tells us she "can't" prescribe Paxlovid unless we are actually sick, so she's no help. All of the other treatments we might get have more side effects and marginal effectiveness.
Before I start searching around here, does anyone have ideas on how to get some Paxlovid to bring with us, to be used only if needed?
Thanks.