{"id":1490,"date":"2021-01-25T06:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klinikong.com\/wp\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2021-01-25T06:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:15:19","slug":"colchicine-effective-oral-drug-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/25\/colchicine-effective-oral-drug-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Colchicine effective oral drug for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian doctors have claimed a first in the use of a common oral medication that appears to be effective in treating Covid-19 infections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a study that involved 4,159 patients diagnosed with Covid-19 with PCR tests, patients taking colchicine were able to reduce risk of death or hospitalisation by 21% compared to placebo. The need for mechanical ventilation was reduced by 50%  and death by 44%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more on this story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/world\/2021\/01\/24\/major-study-finds-worlds-first-oral-medicine-effective-in-treating-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian doctors have claimed a first in the use of a common oral medication that appears to be effective in treating Covid-19 infections. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82,94,320],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-body","tag-colchicine","tag-covid-19","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}