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What is sotrovimab, the COVID drug the government has bought before being approved for use in Australia?

  • Written by: Elise Schubert, Pharmacist and PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
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Australia currently has drugs that treat the symptoms of COVID, and drugs which have been repurposed from other diseases. Now the government has placed an early order for a new drug, sotrovimab, which works on COVID-19 virus particles in the body.

The federal government has bought 7,700 doses of sotrovimab (pronounced so-tro-ve-mab),...

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