Antivirals to Treat COVID-19

Know your risk and get assessed.

Paxlovid is a medication to help prevent you from getting sick from COVID-19. It contains two medications (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir) that work together to stop the COVID-19 virus from spreading inside your body. Paxlovid may prevent your symptoms from worsening and may lower the chance that you will need to go to the hospital for COVID-19.

To learn more, speak to your healthcare provider.

Who should get this treatment?

Use Ontario’s antiviral screener tool to help determine if you should be assessed for treatment.
Paxlovid is an antiviral medication taken by mouth at home. Treatment must begin within five days of the start of symptoms.
Read the Paxlovid handout (information in 29 languages).

Your risk of serious illness is determined based on a combination of your health, age, and vaccination status, based on an assessment from a health care provider.

Your primary care provider or another health care provider can tell you if you are at higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19.

Click here to find out How to get antiviral treatment.

Know your risk and get assessed.

To learn more, speak to your healthcare provider.

Who should get this treatment?

Your primary care provider or another health care provider can tell you if you are at higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19.

Treatments are not substitutes for vaccines. The best defense against severe COVID-19 disease is to get vaccinated.

Know your risk and get assessed.