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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Damon Cronshaw

'There can't be different rules': why COVID drugs are sitting in stockpile

Show Heart: Heart transplant recipient Victoria McGee says a drug that protects against COVID should be easily available to transplant patients. Picture: Peter Lorimer

Transplant patients in the Hunter are being urged to seek antibody treatments from the national medical stockpile to protect them against COVID-19.

Hunter resident Victoria McGee has received free injections from the stockpile of the monoclonal antibodies tixagevimab and cilgavimab, which come under the brand name Evusheld.

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