Tightly targeted access to COVID-19 preventive treatment starts today

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Tightly targeted access to COVID-19 preventive treatment starts today

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New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa

Bryan Betty
Hospital specialists, not general practices, will decide who is eligible for the country’s first COVID-19 preventive medication, says RNZCGP medical director Bryan Betty
“It is a very small, select, number who will benefit from this medication” Access to the first preventive medicine for COVID-19 will be limited t, Evusheld tixagevimab cilgavimab, Evusheld is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies [photo: supplied]