{"id":130831,"date":"2021-11-18T20:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/biden-administration-to-buy-pfizer-antiviral-pills-for-10-million-people-hoping-to-transform-pandemic"},"modified":"2021-11-18T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:47:07","slug":"biden-administration-to-buy-pfizer-antiviral-pills-for-10-million-people-hoping-to-transform-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/biden-administration-to-buy-pfizer-antiviral-pills-for-10-million-people-hoping-to-transform-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration to buy Pfizer antiviral pills for 10 million people, hoping to transform pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biden-administration-to-buy-pfizer-antiviral-pills-for-10-million-people-hoping-to-transform-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is expected to announce this week it is purchasing 10 million courses of treatment Pfizer\u2019s covid pill, a multibillion dollar investment in a medication that officials hope will help change the trajectory of the pandemic by staving off many hospitalizations and deaths, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>-call me Nostradamus, but I called this.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Officials see Pfizer\u2019s pill, and another by Merck, as potential gamechangers to tame the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is expected to announce this week it is purchasing 10 million courses of treatment Pfizer\u2019s covid pill, a multibillion dollar investment in a medication that officials hope will help change the trajectory of the pandemic by staving off many hospitalizations and deaths, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction. \u2013call [\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-130831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130831","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=130831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130832,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130831\/revisions\/130832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}