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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Health
Danny Rigg

New treatment for people at risk of Covid-19 and other viruses

An Aigburth man is "giving something back" to the NHS after it's "done so much" for him.

Tony Brown, 60, put himself forward for a "vital" research trial at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre despite not being a patient there. After two kidney transplants due to an inherited condition that's led to two heart attacks and two hip replacements, Tony's immune system is compromised.

Roughly half a million people in the UK have weakend immune systems because of cancer, kidney transplants or other serious health conditions. Some, like Tony, remain at high risk of severe illness from coronavirus, despite repeated vaccinations.

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