Rizal Philippines
4.03,2021
Recent events came up regarding use of Ivermectin in the Philippines vs covid19
1. There is a video of a Philippine doctor haranguing Phil health authorities threat to suspend the license of Drs who will prescribe Ivermectin;
2. A dra who is inaanak shared a video regarding Ivermectin; her video shared says that the drug is good as a prophylaxis and treatment of covid19
3 A lawyer friend who was former IBP Pres in MM dm'd me regarding their petitiion to PDU30 to allow use of Ivermectin.
Can we have this as another option in the Philippines due to 1. rising number of cases (15,000 yesterday)
2. dearth of vaccine . Another is lianhua - Chinese medicine China FDA approved and available in the Philippines
3.7 billion doses have been used world wide. It was discovered by a Japanese doctor Satoshi Omura, a recipient of Nobel Prize, which was initially used vs parasite, but later on found out be effective with a host of other virus. He co developed this with Dr. William Campbell (who also was given the Nobel prize) Or Omura discovered this from a soil he found near a golf course.
There is all ready politicalization vs the drug. FDA USA has cautioned against its use for covid; and so with Phil FDA, and WHO. Congress Speaker Velasco has endorsed its use. Merck has cautioned vs its use.
