{"id":38200,"date":"2021-12-14T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?p=38200"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:02:58","slug":"pfizer-says-covid-pill-drastically-reduces-severe-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/pfizer-says-covid-pill-drastically-reduces-severe-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer says Covid pill drastically reduces severe disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 75px;height: 75px;border-radius: 50%;background: url(https:\/\/nordot-res.cloudinary.com\/c_limit,w_200,h_200,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/ch\/units\/316764360067056737\/profile_3.png);background-position: center;background-size: cover;vertical-align: middle\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 5px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle\">Published by <br \/>AFP<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px\"><\/div>\n<p>Washington (AFP) &#8211; Pfizer said Tuesday that clinical trials confirmed its Covid pill &#8212; a new type of treatment that should withstand the mutations seen with the Omicron variant &#8212; drastically reduced hospitalizations and deaths among at-risk people by almost 90 percent. The announcement, which was praised by US President Joe Biden, came as a real-world study from South Africa showed two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 70 percent effective in stopping severe illness from the new strain. The sustained vaccine protection was called encouraging by the authors of the research, though it r&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nordot-read-more \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/843604536852496384?c=819177386184916992\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by AFP Washington (AFP) &#8211; Pfizer said Tuesday that clinical trials confirmed its Covid pill &#8212; a new type of treatment that should withstand the mutations seen with the Omicron variant &#8212; drastically reduced hospitalizations and deaths among at-risk people by almost 90 percent. The announcement, which was praised by US President Joe Biden, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/pfizer-says-covid-pill-drastically-reduces-severe-disease\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pfizer says Covid pill drastically reduces severe disease&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38201,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38200\/revisions\/38201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}