{"id":384,"date":"2009-04-29T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T22:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=384"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:30:57","slug":"swine-flu-treatment-guidelines-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/swine-flu-treatment-guidelines-for-now\/2009\/04\/29\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu Treatment Guidelines &#8212; For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/04\/pigs-fly1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-385\" title=\"pigs-fly\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/04\/pigs-fly1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>The swine flu situation is so dynamic that what I wrote earlier this week now seems hopelessly dated &#8212; except that from the perspective of a clinical ID doctor, it still feels eerily similar to the anthrax and SARS outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>But related to that post &#8212; specifically the use of antivirals &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/swineflu\/recommendations.htm\" target=\"_blank\">these interim guidelines<\/a> for use of antivirals in suspected cases of swine flu were posted this afternoon on the CDC site. They make good sense.<\/p>\n<p>Note the strategic use of the word &#8220;interim&#8221;.\u00a0 What are the odds they are unchanged during the next week?\u00a0 1 in a 1000?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swine flu situation is so dynamic that what I wrote earlier this week now seems hopelessly dated &#8212; except that from the perspective of a clinical ID doctor, it still feels eerily similar to the anthrax and SARS outbreaks. But related to that post &#8212; specifically the use of antivirals &#8212; these interim guidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9],"tags":[65,361,363,514,832,889],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-policy","tag-anthrax","tag-flu","tag-flu-treatment","tag-interim-guidelines","tag-sars-outbreaks","tag-swine-flu"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}