{"id":4356,"date":"2024-01-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2024-01-20T23:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T04:08:26","slug":"once-touted-as-a-covid-19-game-changer-paxlovid-is-now-a-question-mark-for-clinicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/once-touted-as-a-covid-19-game-changer-paxlovid-is-now-a-question-mark-for-clinicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Once touted as a COVID-19 \u2018game changer,\u2019 Paxlovid is now a question mark for clinicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you catch the virus behind COVID-19 and you\u2019re at a high risk of serious illness, there\u2019s one major tool in a physician\u2019s arsenal to keep you out of hospital: Paxlovid.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer\u2019s antiviral drug was hailed as life-saving when it burst onto the scene midway through the pandemic. Clinical trials, conducted on people who\u2019d never been vaccinated, showed it protected those vulnerable individuals from becoming dangerously sick, with a nearly 90 per cent reduction in the risk of hospitalization and death.<\/p>\n<p>But many clinicians agree the COVID landscape has shifted dramatically since early January 2022 when the drug was approved for use in Canada. Now, the vast majority of Canadians have more protection from serious illness through prior vaccination, infection or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you catch the virus behind COVID-19 and you\u2019re at a high risk of serious illness, there\u2019s one major tool in a physician\u2019s arsenal to keep you out of hospital: Paxlovid.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer\u2019s antiviral drug was hailed as life-saving when it burst onto the scene midway through the pandemic. Clinical trials, conducted on people who\u2019d never been vaccinated, showed it protected those vulnerable individuals from becoming dangerously sick, with a nearly 90 per cent reduction in the risk of hospitalization and death.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/once-touted-as-a-covid-19-game-changer-paxlovid-is-now-a-question-mark-for-clinicians\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Once touted as a COVID-19 \u2018game changer,\u2019 Paxlovid is now a question mark for clinicians<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,474,14],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-paxlovid","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}