{"id":19159,"date":"2021-11-22T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19159"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:35:17","slug":"success-of-covid-antiviral-pills-hinges-on-access-to-speedy-and-accurate-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19159","title":{"rendered":"Success of Covid Antiviral Pills Hinges on Access to Speedy and Accurate Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Within a few weeks, perhaps before many Americans finish decorating for the holidays, the U.S. could have access to a new antiviral pill from Merck expected to alter the deadly trajectory of the covid-19 pandemic \u2014 with a second option from Pfizer to follow shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Now under federal review, both pills are being hailed by infectious-disease doctors not prone to superlatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is truly a game changer,\u201d said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an expert on infectious diseases and immunology at Columbia University. \u201cThis is up there with vaccines. It\u2019s not a substitute for vaccines; we still want to get people vaccinated. But, boy, this is just another great tool to have.\u201d Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/success-of-covid-antiviral-pills-hinges-on-access-to-speedy-and-accurate-tests\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News) Within a few weeks, perhaps before many Americans finish decorating for the holidays,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19160,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions\/19160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}