New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.
My understanding was chicken pox is hard to get rid of because it goes into a “dormant” state where it embeds viral dna in living host nuclei.
From everything I’ve read Covid doesn’t work like that and afaik it doesn’t have some kind of dormant state.