{"id":20775,"date":"2023-01-18T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20775"},"modified":"2023-01-18T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:09:06","slug":"what-older-americans-need-to-know-about-taking-paxlovid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20775","title":{"rendered":"What Older Americans Need to Know About Taking Paxlovid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Judith Graham on January 18, 2023 for Kaiser Health News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible one yet. Hospitalizations of infected patients are rising. And older adults represent\u00a0nearly 90%\u00a0of U.S. deaths from covid-19 in recent months, the largest portion since the start of the pandemic.  <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/older-americans-covid-paxlovid-risks-drug-interactions-guidance\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, 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-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Judith Graham on January 18, 2023 for Kaiser Health News A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,52,15],"tags":[75,65,94,189,237],"class_list":["post-20775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","category-pandemic","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-covid-19","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults","tag-pandemic","tag-paxlovid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20780,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775\/revisions\/20780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}