So pfizers "drug" is a protease inhibitor. Protease inhibitors are never reccomended for people that use statins and/or blood thinners.

Protease inhibitors can be used for people who have HIV to prevent AIDS. Also emerging to be an anti-viral and anti-bacterial and other things. For HIV, it's not a cure, it only works to suppress; it's a life long temporary "cure".

Just about all protease inhibitors end with -evir or -avir. I don't know whats in "Paxlovid". I'd be willing to bet something in it or something that needs to be taken with it will end in a -vir.

Some other potential side effects of protease inhibitors include

• Insulin resistance
• Nausea and diarrhea
• Development of gallstones or kidney stones
• Changes in how things taste
• Insomnia
• Elevated numbers in liver function tests
• Rash or dry skin
• Elevated cholesterol
• New or worsening cases of diabetes
• New or worsening cases of hyperglycemia, or too much sugar in the blood
• Spontaneous bleeding
• Changes in body composition

Ivermectin also acts as a protease inhibitor and has similar concerns especially for people on blood thinners.

Good luck trying to sell HIV treatment to Americans who don't have HIV.