{"id":31947,"date":"2021-10-02T18:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31947"},"modified":"2021-10-02T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:06:41","slug":"molnupiravir-new-covid-drug-cuts-risk-of-death-by-50-per-cent-early-trial-results-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/02\/molnupiravir-new-covid-drug-cuts-risk-of-death-by-50-per-cent-early-trial-results-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Molnupiravir: New Covid drug cuts risk of death by 50 per cent, early trial results show"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31948\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/molnupiravir-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/molnupiravir-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/molnupiravir-360x249.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/molnupiravir.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An antiviral drug originally developed to treat influenza reduces hospitalisation and death from\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"52\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:52,&quot;p&quot;:49,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:3}\">Covid-19<\/a> by 50 per cent in patients <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/molnupiravir-new-covid-drug-cuts-risk-of-death-by-50-per-cent-early-trial-results-show\/ar-AAP3UNp?ocid=msedgntp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An antiviral drug originally developed to treat influenza reduces hospitalisation and death from\u00a0Covid-19 by 50 per cent in patients Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/molnupiravir.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31949,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947\/revisions\/31949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}