it should mostly replace prevention efforts other than vaccination.
It’s a treatment, not a prophylaxis. This prevents hospitalization/death, not infection. So for preventing infections (if that is a goal), NPIs are still relevant.
The treatment means that it’s less bad if you get infected. Therefore it decreases the benefits of preventing infection. Therefore, infection-prevention efforts that were previously justified in a cost-benefit analysis might no longer be justified (on the margin).
For sake of illustration, if the treatment had negligible cost and total availability and was 100% effective at eliminating all COVID symptoms, then it would be essentially pointless to make any prevention efforts anymore.
The treatment means that it’s less bad if you get infected. Therefore it decreases the benefits of preventing infection. Therefore, infection-prevention efforts that were previously justified in a cost-benefit analysis might no longer be justified (on the margin).
For sake of illustration, if the treatment had negligible cost and total availability and was 100% effective at eliminating all COVID symptoms, then it would be essentially pointless to make any prevention efforts anymore.
Good point!