{"id":36557,"date":"2021-06-17T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T01:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36557"},"modified":"2021-06-17T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T01:14:50","slug":"biden-administration-investing-billions-in-antiviral-pills-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36557","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration investing billions in antiviral pills for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration plans to invest billions of dollars in antiviral pills to treat COVID-19 and ready the U.S. to combat future viruses that have the potential to spark a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Officials committed to spending more than $3 billion on the Antiviral Program for Pandemics that aims to support and speed up the development and production of antiviral treatments for COVID-19 to reduce serious illnesses and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The multiyear funding will help to launch clinical research and manufacturing, and the hope is for some treatments to be available by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the program is to produce an oral drug that Americans can take early in their COVID-19 infection to prevent hospitalizations and fatalities from the disease. Such an oral pill would operate similarly to antiviral treatments for influenza, HIV and hepatitis C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration plans to invest&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36559,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36557\/revisions\/36559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}