{"id":1318,"date":"2022-11-08T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:37","slug":"new-va-study-finds-paxlovid-may-cut-the-risk-of-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/08\/new-va-study-finds-paxlovid-may-cut-the-risk-of-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"New VA study finds Paxlovid may cut the risk of long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/11\/08\/1134982401\/new-va-study-finds-paxlovid-may-cut-the-risk-of-long-covid?utm_source=npr_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20221108&amp;utm_term=7497491&amp;utm_campaign=news&amp;utm_id=9841404&amp;orgid=1036&amp;utm_att1=\">NPR<\/a>) It&#8217;s well-documented that Paxlovid \u2014 a 5-day course of antiviral pills from Pfizer \u2014 can reduce the risk of hospitalization in COVID-19 patients who are more likely to develop severe illness. Now, researchers from the Veterans Health Administration find that taking the medication may also reduce the risks of later developing long COVID, according to a\u00a0new study\u00a0that was posted online this weekend and has not yet undergone peer review. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.11.03.22281783v1\">Related Pre-Print Study<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" Yy IrlFjRBpbSYzUzPY   oXmxxoS\"> Yy IrlFjRBpbSYzUzPY   oXmxxoS<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NPR) It&#8217;s well-documented that Paxlovid \u2014 a 5-day course of antiviral pills from Pfizer \u2014 can reduce the risk of hospitalization in COVID-19 patients who are more likely to develop severe illness. Now, researchers from the Veterans Health Administration find that taking the medication may also reduce the risks of later developing long COVID, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-therapies","category-long-covid","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}