{"id":131476,"date":"2021-11-29T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/pfizer-expects-covid-19-antiviral-to-work-against-omicron"},"modified":"2021-11-29T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:25:14","slug":"pfizer-expects-covid-19-antiviral-to-work-against-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/pfizer-expects-covid-19-antiviral-to-work-against-omicron","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer expects COVID-19 antiviral to work against omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pfizer-expects-covid-19-antiviral-to-work-against-omicron.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pfizer is confident its COVID-19 antiviral pill, Paxlovid, will be effective against the new omicron variant, the drugmaker\u2019s CEO told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/29\/pfizer-ceo-confident-covid-treatment-pill-effective-against-omicron-variant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a> <\/em>Nov. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The omicron strain, first detected in South Africa, contains 32 mutations in the spike protein, and while preliminary evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/public-health\/us-tightens-borders-as-omicron-variant-spreads-10-things-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggests<\/a> the strain may increase the risk of reinfection, it\u2019s still uncertain how the variant may affect illness severity or the effectiveness of vaccines and treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Bourla, PhD, Pfizer\u2019s CEO, told <em>CNBC<\/em> the company\u2019s antiviral was created with the spike protein in mind and expects it will work against omicron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer is confident its COVID-19 antiviral pill, Paxlovid, will be effective against the new omicron variant, the drugmaker\u2019s CEO told CNBC Nov. 29. The omicron strain, first detected in South Africa, contains 32 mutations in the spike protein, and while preliminary evidence suggests the strain may increase the risk of reinfection, it\u2019s still uncertain how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131476","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}