Thread by @spaceangel1964

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I try not to ask folk to RT my Tweets too often, but this is a real plea for you to share.
The immunosuppressed are being denied life-saving treatment to protect us from #Covid. My life has been on hold for over 2 years & I'm desperate now.
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#Evusheld is a drug designed to protect clinically vulnerable people against Covid in cases where vaccines don’t work. Evusheld is given prophylactically (that is, in advance) to stop people in this situation developing severe Covid in the first place.
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It is impossible to get #Evusheld in the UK, either on the NHS, or privately. Yet it is now available in other comparable countries, such as France, Canada, Israel, & the US and it works. However, the UK Gov't has not yet procured a single dose, despite approval by the MHRA.
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If 500,000 patients required the drug, it would cost the taxpayer less than £400m. This is just 4% of the cost of the PPE that was written off early in the Covid pandemic. And an even smaller percentage of the billions wasted by the Tories on contracts to their mates.
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Boris Johnson announced #FreedomDay in July last year & said that we would now be able to 'live with Covid', but that's not possible for the immunosuppressed. It is tough enough living with cancer, but doing so living in isolation for 27 months is unbearable.
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I want to get back to work, I want to go to events, I am desperate to do the simple things people take for granted and I want a hug (preferably from my son, but anyone will do!). The only human contact I've had is from medical staff & a surgeon wielding a scalpel.
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So, we need your help to campaign & influence this Gov't to approve #Evusheld4TheUK - to give us protection and enable us to re-enter society from which we are isolated.
You can find out more here: getevusheld.uk//
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So, we call upon @sajidjavid to urgently secure doses of #Evusheld & start the process of enabling the immunosuppressed to #LiveWithCovid.
Can you please support us? @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting @vickyfoxcroft @CarolineLucas @GwynneMP @jessphillips @evusheld4theuk
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