{"id":5219,"date":"2024-04-01T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2024-04-02T04:21:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:21:03","slug":"paxlovid-to-no-longer-be-provided-to-provinces-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/paxlovid-to-no-longer-be-provided-to-provinces-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxlovid to no longer be provided to provinces for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is no longer paying for an antiviral pill used to treat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The PHAC said it will no longer procure Paxlovid, which is intended to be used after being diagnosed with COVID, for provinces and territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe provinces and territories are responsible for determining how best to implement and manage the available supply of COVID-19 therapeutics, including Paxlovid,\u201d a spokesperson for Health Canada said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is no longer paying for an antiviral pill used to treat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The PHAC said it will no longer procure Paxlovid, which is intended to be used after being diagnosed with COVID, for provinces and territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe provinces and territories are responsible for determining how best to implement and manage the available supply of COVID-19 therapeutics, including Paxlovid,\u201d a spokesperson for Health Canada said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/paxlovid-to-no-longer-be-provided-to-provinces-for-free\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paxlovid to no longer be provided to provinces for free<\/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":[473,96,18,21,282,474,309,258,14],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antiviral-drugs","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-manitoba","tag-paxlovid","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","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=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}