{"id":123365,"date":"2021-06-03T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/nih-scientists-say-they-may-have-found-a-promising-new-oral-antiviral-drug-for-covid"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:22:19","slug":"nih-scientists-say-they-may-have-found-a-promising-new-oral-antiviral-drug-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/nih-scientists-say-they-may-have-found-a-promising-new-oral-antiviral-drug-for-covid","title":{"rendered":"NIH scientists say they may have found a promising new oral antiviral drug for Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nih-scientists-say-they-may-have-found-a-promising-new-oral-antiviral-drug-for-covid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists may have found a promising new treatment for Covid-19 after an experimental oral antiviral drug demonstrated the ability to prevent the coronavirus from replicating, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday, citing a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, called TEMPOL, can reduce Covid-19 infections by impairing an enzyme the virus needs to make copies of itself once it\u2019s inside human cells, which could potentially limit the severity of the disease, researchers at the NIH said. The drug was tested in an experiment of cell cultures with live viruses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urgently need additional effective, accessible treatments for COVID-19,\u201d Dr. Diana W. Bianchi, director of the NIH\u2019s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, wrote in a statement. \u201cAn oral drug that prevents SARS-CoV-2 from replicating would be an important tool for reducing the severity of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists may have found a promising new treatment for Covid-19 after an experimental oral antiviral drug demonstrated the ability to prevent the coronavirus from replicating, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday, citing a new study. The drug, called TEMPOL, can reduce Covid-19 infections by impairing an enzyme the virus needs to make copies of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123365","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}