{"id":8017,"date":"2024-10-30T05:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2024-10-30T05:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:36:05","slug":"japans-shionogi-says-phase-3-study-showed-covid-pill-reduces-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/30\/japans-shionogi-says-phase-3-study-showed-covid-pill-reduces-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Shionogi says Phase 3 study showed COVID pill reduces transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/japans-shionogi-says-phase-3-study-showed-covid-pill-reduces-transmission-2024-10-29\/\">Reuters<\/a> Japan&#8217;s Shionogi &amp; Co\u00a0said on Tuesday a global, late-stage study showed its pill-based treatment for COVID-19 was effective in reducing transmission of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ensitrelvir, known commercially as Xocova, showed a statistically significant reduction in participants with symptomatic infection after exposure to household contacts with COVID, Shionogi said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Phase 3 SCORPIO-PEP trial involved about 2,400 participants in the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia. The result follows the drugmaker&#8217;s May\u00a0comments\u00a0that its SCORPIO-HR trial showed the pill failed to reduce common symptoms of the illness, compared to a placebo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan gave the drug full approval in March this year. Although the government bought 2 million courses of the treatment during the pandemic, most of the supply was unused and set to be destroyed, media said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Japan&#8217;s Shionogi &amp; Co\u00a0said on Tuesday a global, late-stage study showed its pill-based treatment for COVID-19 was effective in reducing transmission of the disease. Ensitrelvir, known commercially as Xocova, showed a statistically significant reduction in participants with symptomatic infection after exposure to household contacts with COVID, Shionogi said in a statement. The Phase 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/8017","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}