COVID-19 antiviral medications are now more widely available, but do enough eligible people know where and how to get them?
When academic, author and disability advocate Dr Sharon Boyce contracted COVID in April, she and her doctor were scared about what might happen.
"It was very scary about the what if [of having COVID], but once I got the antivirals and started them, I didn't have major problems," she said. "I've had a conversation with two people with disability this morning and both of them were not aware that there are antivirals, so I think it's a really important thing that we get the message out there."
"They do prevent people from having to go to hospital and ICU and even death, so it's really important to get and really important to get them early," he said. They work by inhibiting replication of the virus and should be given as soon as possible after diagnosis of COVID and within five days of the start of symptoms.
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