{"id":127186,"date":"2021-09-03T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/drugs-to-use-avoid-when-treating-covid-19-top-health-system-physicians-weigh-in"},"modified":"2021-09-03T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:22:41","slug":"drugs-to-use-avoid-when-treating-covid-19-top-health-system-physicians-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/drugs-to-use-avoid-when-treating-covid-19-top-health-system-physicians-weigh-in","title":{"rendered":"Drugs to use, avoid when treating COVID-19: Top health system physicians weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drugs-to-use-avoid-when-treating-covid-19-top-health-system-physicians-weigh-in.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/us-has-less-than-10-drugs-to-treat-covid-19.html\">very few drugs authorized<\/a> by the FDA to treat the virus. Just one drug, remdesivir, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/remdesivir-becomes-first-fda-approved-covid-19-treatment.html\">gained full FDA approval<\/a> as a treatment for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><em>Becker\u2019s<\/em> asked physicians from top health systems which medications they\u2019re using most frequently to treat their COVID-19 patients, which they\u2019re avoiding and which have been most effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still very few drugs authorized by the FDA to treat the virus. Just one drug, remdesivir, has gained full FDA approval as a treatment for COVID-19. Becker\u2019s asked physicians from top health systems which medications they\u2019re using most frequently to treat their COVID-19 patients, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127186","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\/127186","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}