{"id":8389,"date":"2025-04-08T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2025-04-09T03:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:14:40","slug":"tackling-the-silent-pandemic-breakthrough-study-puts-first-long-covid-treatment-on-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tackling-the-silent-pandemic-breakthrough-study-puts-first-long-covid-treatment-on-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling the \u2018silent pandemic\u2019: breakthrough study puts first long COVID treatment on horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have shown a new drug compound can prevent long COVID symptoms in mice \u2013 a landmark finding that could lead to a future treatment for the debilitating condition.<\/p>\n<p>The world-first study found mice treated with the antiviral compound, developed by a multidisciplinary research team at WEHI, were protected from long term brain and lung dysfunction \u2013 key symptoms of long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers hope the unprecedented results could lead to clinical trials and the first treatment for the disease in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have shown a new drug compound can prevent long COVID symptoms in mice \u2013 a landmark finding that could lead to a future treatment for the debilitating condition.<\/p>\n<p>The world-first study found mice treated with the antiviral compound, developed by a multidisciplinary research team at WEHI, were protected from long term brain and lung dysfunction \u2013 key symptoms of long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers hope the unprecedented results could lead to clinical trials and the first treatment for the disease in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tackling-the-silent-pandemic-breakthrough-study-puts-first-long-covid-treatment-on-horizon\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tackling the \u2018silent pandemic\u2019: breakthrough study puts first long COVID treatment on horizon<\/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":[407,18,11,88,474,1322,8,14,1324],"class_list":["post-8389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-medical-treatments","tag-paxlovid","tag-plpro","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-wehi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","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=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}