Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah says strategy is letting Australians down, but medical groups back current regulatory approach
A Labor MP and doctor says the nation’s strategy on responding to Covid infections is “letting Australians down” and is calling for a major overhaul on eligibility for powerful anti-viral drugs to allow far greater access for more people.
“I feel like Australians are being short-changed,” Ananda-Rajah, an infectious disease specialist and general physician before entering politics, told Guardian Australia.“We’re wholesale letting down Australians. There’s no getting away from this. We’ve got nothing but telling people to take a Panadol and pray.”
“Our strong message is if you’re eligible, get access to medications and make a pre-emptive plan,” she said. “It would be quite wrong to recommend anti-virals beyond what the evidence shows is effective. If you start using them in people that have little to gain, you’re more likely to get a net harm than a net benefit,” he said.
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