This 100-year-old N.L. veteran has COVID-19, but can’t get the COVID drug to treat him – CBC

Rod Deon was denied access to Paxlovid Monday

Apr 26, 2022

The daughter of a 100-year-old St. John’s man says he is being denied access to the COVID-19 anti-viral drug that could keep him out of hospital because he doesn’t fit the provincial guidelines for treatment.

Rod Deon, one of the province’s last remaining veterans of the Second World War, is doing OK since testing positive according to his daughter, Jenn, who had tested positive herself nine days earlier.

He also has emphysema, putting him at a higher risk of a severe health outcome.

The family created a plan with Deon’s nurse practitioner in the event he tested positive, which included a recommendation for Paxlovid.

But after he tested positive, and the authorization form to p

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