{"id":125732,"date":"2021-08-01T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/could-covid-vaccine-be-taken-as-a-pill"},"modified":"2021-08-01T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:22:17","slug":"could-covid-vaccine-be-taken-as-a-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/could-covid-vaccine-be-taken-as-a-pill","title":{"rendered":"Could Covid vaccine be taken as a pill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-covid-vaccine-be-taken-as-a-pill2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now, protection against Covid-19 comes via an injection. But in future, those vaccines could come from inhalers or even pills.<\/p>\n<p>In a white, airy laboratory in Medicon Village, one of southern Sweden\u2019s largest science parks, chemist Ingemo Andersson holds up a thin, plastic inhaler, half the size of a matchbox.<\/p>\n<p>Her team is hoping this tiny product could play a big role in the global fight against coronavirus allowing people to take powdered versions of future vaccines at home.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers are looking at easier ways for people to get the vaccine, including via inhalers and tablets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, protection against Covid-19 comes via an injection. But in future, those vaccines could come from inhalers or even pills. In a white, airy laboratory in Medicon Village, one of southern Sweden\u2019s largest science parks, chemist Ingemo Andersson holds up a thin, plastic inhaler, half the size of a matchbox. Her team is hoping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125732","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=125732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}