{"id":128150,"date":"2021-09-27T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/pfizer-tests-pill-that-could-prevent-covid-infection"},"modified":"2021-09-27T22:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T05:34:06","slug":"pfizer-tests-pill-that-could-prevent-covid-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/pfizer-tests-pill-that-could-prevent-covid-infection","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer Tests Pill That Could Prevent Covid Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pfizer-tests-pill-that-could-prevent-covid-infection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pfizer is investigating an oral antiviral drug that could prevent Covid-19 infection after being exposed to the virus, the company announced Monday, as scientists around the world work to develop new tools to fight Covid-19 and ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer said it is launching a mid-to-late-stage clinical trial to test whether the antiviral drug, PF-07321332, can prevent Covid-19 infection in some 2,660 healthy adults living in the same house as someone with a confirmed symptomatic infection.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will test the safety and efficacy of the pill with ritonavir, another antiviral widely used to treat HIV.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Pfizer hopes the pill, taken twice a day, would stop someone from becoming infected with Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer is investigating an oral antiviral drug that could prevent Covid-19 infection after being exposed to the virus, the company announced Monday, as scientists around the world work to develop new tools to fight Covid-19 and ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals. Pfizer said it is launching a mid-to-late-stage clinical trial to test whether the [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128150","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=128150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}