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Scottish deployment of Covid antiviral drugs

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Scottish guidelines have been issued for the deployment of antiviral drugs to Covid patients in Scotland. For full details see the PDF letter linked from the following page. The letter is from the Scottish Chief Medical Officer and the Scottish Chief Pharmaceutical Officer.

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Thanks for the information. I get another Rituximab dose on Monday, so I am crossing my fingers for the next few weeks.

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Many many thanks for this Viv. Why oh why have higher risk patients in Scotland not been alerted to this??? I have printed off the letter and am keeping it safe incase god forbid I need to produce it for my GP if I test positive. Well done to you. x

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