There is yet a scientific proof that Carrimycin, a China-developed drug, is effective in treating severe respiratory ailment COVID-19, and so the Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday said it is not recommending its use. | DYGalvezINQ
Vergeire then urged the public to just wait for the results of clinical trials launched to search for the cure against COVID-19, such as the Solidarity Trial by the World Health Organization.
The DOH official made these remarks after being asked to comment on Carrimycin, which Armed Forces chief Gen. Filemon Santos Jr. said might have healed him as he tested negative for the new coronavirus days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. In a letter to Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian, Santos sought the envoy’s “assistance in the procurement of 5 boxes of Carrimycin tablets which is available only in China.”“I believe that the said medicine helped 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,” he wrote in his
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