Many doctors seem to have that erroneous impression. siderea posted a couple of posts talking about this: 1, 2. Per the FDA prescribing guidelines, it is for people that the CDC considers at elevated risk from Covid, which is much larger than what most doctors think of as "old and immunocompromised" -- the full list is here.
I did hear that some people had trouble with Kaiser being excessively strict, and suggested calling urgent care to talk to an RN.
Personally, what I did was schedule an appointment at one of CVS's "Minute Clinic" places, and showed up (thoroughly masked, of course!) and said that I believed that I qualified for paxlovid and asked for a prescription, and they were quite happy to go ahead with it as a very routine thing. I don't recall if they actually asked for my qualifying condition or just had me certify that I had one.
Anyway, while chronic fatigue per se is not on the CDC list, I expect that some of its comorbidities may be, and certainly "physical inactivity" seems like something that having fatigue syndrome would cause.
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I did hear that some people had trouble with Kaiser being excessively strict, and suggested calling urgent care to talk to an RN.
Personally, what I did was schedule an appointment at one of CVS's "Minute Clinic" places, and showed up (thoroughly masked, of course!) and said that I believed that I qualified for paxlovid and asked for a prescription, and they were quite happy to go ahead with it as a very routine thing. I don't recall if they actually asked for my qualifying condition or just had me certify that I had one.
Anyway, while chronic fatigue per se is not on the CDC list, I expect that some of its comorbidities may be, and certainly "physical inactivity" seems like something that having fatigue syndrome would cause.