{"id":50206,"date":"2023-09-26T10:06:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50206"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:06:29","slug":"first-antiviral-drug-for-covid-may-have-created-mutations-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/first-antiviral-drug-for-covid-may-have-created-mutations-scientists-find\/","title":{"rendered":"First antiviral drug for Covid may have created mutations, scientists find"},"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>A drug <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health-fitness\/doctors-diary\/spending-millions-covid-antivirals-do-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">prescribed to treat Covid<\/a> caused the virus to mutate and may have helped create some of the variants circulating today, a study has found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/first-antiviral-drug-for-covid-may-have-created-mutations-scientists-find\/ar-AA1heL4z?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=2edbc522fb4441849b67fc423a5e1644&amp;ei=28\">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>A drug prescribed to treat Covid caused the virus to mutate and may have helped create some of the variants circulating today,&#8230;<\/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-50206","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\/50206","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=50206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50207,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50206\/revisions\/50207"}],"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=50206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}