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Philippines President: Doctors & Patients Have A Right to Use Ivermectin Off-Label to Target COVID-19
Recently the Philippines News Agency reported on President Roberto Duterte’s move, possibly to the chagrin of the World Health Organization (WHO), to leave the determination of what approved, off-label drugs to use with physicians and their consenting patients—the way it used to work in the United States. In this case, a presidential edict declared that this right is applicable to ivermectin as an off-label treatment for COVID-19. President Duterte’s remarks were pre-recorded in a major speech delivered to the Philippines population.
Duterte has a reputation as a strong-armed nationalist, hostility to the West aside; the Philippines president declared the use of ivermectin was a “good gamble” for those physicians and their consenting patients seeking a treatment targeting COVID-19.
Reporting for the government’s official news agency, Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos wrote on the mounting tension in the country between most medical authorities that demand the drug only be used in a clinical trial and large numbers in civil society that have followed the dozens of clinical trials, primarily in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The reporter included a quote from Duterte, declaring, “I leave it really to the doctor-patient relationship. If the doctor believes in good faith that it can help, and the patient also believes in his heart that he will get well, we leave it up to you to decide.”
Duterte said he could not ignore the claims that ivermectin is effective in treating Covid-19 patients.
“Kasi mahirap naman masisi na kung totoo talagang effective tapos pipigilan mo with the testimony bound, plus ‘yung maraming taong nagsabi na gumaling sila (So, it’s hard to be blamed if it’s really effective and you will stop them despite testimonies and claims of some that they recovered [because of Ivermectin]. So for some people, it would be quite a good gamble to embark on,” he said.
Different Reality
Now travel over to Australia and discover that the nation’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has all but banned any off-label prescribing for general practitioners (GPs). This undoubtedly makes it extremely difficult for specialists to get a hold of the drug for any reason remotely close to COVID-19.
Meanwhile, a similar theme emerges in the United States. Recently, the powerful licensing boards have warned physicians their licenses will be yanked (and thus their livelihood) if they put forth any “misinformation.” Who determines the definition of misinformation increasingly points to a tripartite of a politicized executive branch, elites in academia, and the licensing boards themselves, perhaps with a whisper from the industry lobby.
Back in the Philippines, while their Food and Drug Administration allows for compassionate use, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has been planning for months to launch a clinical trial testing ivermectin. According to the official government media, the plan is to launch the eight-month study this month.
It is strange that the ivermectin fanatics trumpet dubious 3rd world politicians and corrupt Latin American political initiatives as evidence that every major Western country with a good regulatory system is wrong!
Just because from all the TSN links here you might not realise:
- ivermectin is being actively investigated as therapy along with many other repurposed drugs, if it works it will get adopted quickly
- currently the high quality data on ivermectin does not look good
- the lab evidence for action never looked good
- the two concerns about allowing its use are that people may believe the false propaganda and either overdose (many are already doing this) or false confidence
- most doctors do not think it advisable to prescribe ivermectin because the evidence is not there for its use