{"id":118804,"date":"2021-01-23T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/quebec-researchers-say-they-have-found-an-effective-drug-to-fight-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-01-23T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T00:22:47","slug":"quebec-researchers-say-they-have-found-an-effective-drug-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/quebec-researchers-say-they-have-found-an-effective-drug-to-fight-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quebec-researchers-say-they-have-found-an-effective-drug-to-fight-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 A team of researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute believe they have found an effective weapon against COVID-19: colchicine, an oral tablet already known and used for other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, who led the study, this is a \u201cmajor scientific discovery,\u201d he said. Colchicine is the first \u201ceffective oral drug to treat out-of-hospital patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be able to offer this, from Quebec, and for the planet, we are very happy,\u201d said Tardif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 A team of researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute believe they have found an effective weapon against COVID-19: colchicine, an oral tablet already known and used for other diseases. For Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, who led the study, this is a \u201cmajor scientific discovery,\u201d he said. Colchicine is the first \u201ceffective oral drug to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}