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Nearly 40% of Massachusts residents might be eligible for therapeutic treatments for COVID-19, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. .

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid out a more comprehensive list of conditions that lead to elevated risk, but here are some of the risk factors, as laid out by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health:.

People over the age of 65 years old are also eligible, according to a Department of Public Health information sheet. .

In order to qualify for the treatment you also have to have a positive COVID-19 test that results in a symptomatic infection that hasn’t yet required hospitalization, according to DPH.

Both the telehealth visit and the prescription are free no matter your insurance status, and are available to people over the age of 18 who have tested positive and are experiencing symptoms, according to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Each telehealth visit consists of a short intake survey, followed by a video consultation with a health care clinician, according to the state

The state maintains both a COVID-19 Therapeutic Look Up Tool and a COVID-19 Therapeutic Locator to help find treatment closest to you

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