COVID-19 antivirals are medicines used to treat COVID-19 infection. They may help you become less sick and stay out of hospital.
https://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/covid-antivirals/
Eligible people include:
- Māori or Pasifika aged 50 years or older
- everyone aged 65 years and older
- anyone aged 50 years or older who has had fewer than 2 COVID-19 vaccinations.
You are also eligible for these medicines if you have 1 of the following:
- A severely weakened immune system.
- Down syndrome.
- Sickle cell anaemia.
- A previous admission to critical care or high dependency care because of COVID-19 infection and you have tested positive again
Any combination of 3 or more high risk medical conditions. – https://covid19.govt.nz/prepare-and-stay-safe/people-at-higher-risk-of-severe-illness-from-covid-19
High-risk medical conditions include:
- chronic lung or airways disease
- serious heart conditions such as congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, rheumatic heart disease and congenital heart disease
- hypertension
- chronic neurological or neuromuscular disease
- diabetes
- chronic kidney disease
- severe liver disease such as cirrhosis
- severe haematological disorders
- severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, bipolar or schizoaffective disorder
- active cancer
- morbid obesity — a body mass index (BMI) greater than 35
- sickle cell disease
- Down syndrome.