{"id":7295,"date":"2024-10-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2024-10-17T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T17:26:58","slug":"changes-in-paxlovid-coverage-raises-concerns-about-affordability-access-in-nb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/changes-in-paxlovid-coverage-raises-concerns-about-affordability-access-in-nb\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Paxlovid coverage raises concerns about affordability, access in N.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Brunswick has taken steps to make Paxlovid more affordable for some people at higher risk of becoming severely ill or dying from COVID-19, now that the federal government has stopped supplying the anti-viral medication to provinces for free. <\/p>\n<p>But the drug designed to reduce symptoms from an infection and shorten the period of illness remains out of reach for many, either because of the cost of about $1,400 for a five-day course, a lack of timely access, or reduced eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Brunswick has taken steps to make Paxlovid more affordable for some people at higher risk of becoming severely ill or dying from COVID-19, now that the federal government has stopped supplying the anti-viral medication to provinces for free. <\/p>\n<p>But the drug designed to reduce symptoms from an infection and shorten the period of illness remains out of reach for many, either because of the cost of about $1,400 for a five-day course, a lack of timely access, or reduced eligibility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/changes-in-paxlovid-coverage-raises-concerns-about-affordability-access-in-nb\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changes in Paxlovid coverage raises concerns about affordability, access in N.B.<\/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":[96,18,88,73,474,14],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-medical-treatments","tag-new-brunswick","tag-paxlovid","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","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=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}