A team of researchers from UC San Francisco has found that Paxlovid did not reduce the risk of developing long COVID for vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals during their first COVID-19 infection. They also found that a higher proportion of individuals than previously reported experience rebounds after taking Paxlovid. 

The study appears Jan. 4, 2024, in the Journal of Medical Virology.

C. Benjamin Ma, MD, a highly regarded orthopaedic surgeon and advanced imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Ma will assume his new role on Jan.1, 2024.