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Correspondence to Prof Stefano Rusconi, DIBIC Luigi Sacco, University of Milan, Milan, Italy;stefano.rusconi@unimi.it Treatment regimens for HIV or Hepatitis C Virus do not need to be altered during Paxlovid administration for COVID-19 Treatment with Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir 300/100 mg two times per day for 5 days) is expected to play an important role in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who are at risk of disease progression. The change to HPV screening is less likely to miss invasive cancer than previous estimates The move away from combined cytology plus human papillomavirus (HPV) testing to HPV testing alone has raised concerns that cases of cervical cancer may be missed among those with a negative HPV test. Investigators in the USA studied the prevalence of invasive cervical cancer in women with a PAP-positive/HPV-negative cotest where a diagnosis would not have occurred as a consequence of symptoms or clinical examination.