MANILA – The Department of Health on Wednesday warned against the use of Carrimycin as possible remedy to COVID-19 due to lack of scientific evidence for its safety and efficacy.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the drug was registered in the US National Library of Medicine for a clinical trial against COVID-19 in February, but results have not yet been released.
Vergeire made the remark in response to a question that Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff Gen. Felimon Santos Jr. recovered from COVID-19 by using Carrimycin. "The said medicine helped me in my recovery from the coronavirus disease 2019 infection and I intend to give the said drug to my close friends who have also been infected," Santos wrote in the letter.
Vergeire said the Philippines was among more than 100 countries that is participating in the World Health Organization’s Solidarity Trial for COVID-19 treatments.
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