{"id":51099,"date":"2022-08-04T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51099"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:53:32","slug":"paxlovid-rebound-raises-questions-over-how-long-antiviral-covid-treatment-should-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51099","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Paxlovid rebound\u2019 raises questions over how long antiviral COVID treatment should last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden testing positive for COVID-19 again days after completing a course of Paxlovid has raised the question of whether the length of the antiviral treatment should be reconsidered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just days after he completed a five-day round of Pfizer\u2019s COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Biden\u2019s physician, Kevin O\u2019Connor, said in a letter on Saturday that the president had tested positive once again. As of Wednesday, Biden is\u00a0still testing positive\u00a0for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p>This phenomenon has come to be known as \u201cPaxlovid rebound,\u201d when a person tests positive for the coronavirus again even after initially testing negative following a round of treatment\u00a0with the antiviral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden testing positive for COVID-19&#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-51099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099","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=51099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51100,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099\/revisions\/51100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}