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2 other things you can do to reduce the viral load of COVID while you are sick with it, which decreases the severity/lowers your risk of long COVID:
Use a mouthwash containing .07% CPC (like https://amazon.com/dp/B06XC4DSSW for example) twice a day while you are sick [1]
Use Covixyl (active ingredient ELAH/ethyl lauroyl arginine hydrochloride, deemed generally safe by the FDA) nasal spray or Betadine cold defence nasal spray (active ingredient iota-carrageenan) 3x per day [2]. Important: Do not use a povidone-iodine nasal spray, that can be harmful and the FDA bans those.
Sources
[1] Efficacy of CPC mouthwash for decreasing the viral load of COVID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941951/[2] Efficacy of using a nasal spray while you have COVID to decrease the severity and make you get better faster: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9969373
Although Paxlovid is the first/most important thing to do to decrease your likelihood of long COVID, using CPC mouthwash and nasal sprays while you have COVID is a good idea to do regardless, with or without Paxlovid.
Anecdotally (n=1) when I had covid recently and experimented on myself, after taking full-spectrum cannabis oil, the indicator line on my home test was substantially thinner (indicating less viral load) and was darker a few days later with no additional cannabis in between.
Obviously just stoner bro science at this point, but there've been a handful of studies about how various cannabinoids inhibit covid cellular entry.