ni Mary Gutierrez Almirañez | April 9, 2021
Nilinaw ng mga eksperto na hindi epektibong gamot sa COVID-19 ang veterinary product na Ivermectin, batay sa naging panayam sa miyembro ng Technical Advisory Group (TAG) na si Dr. Edsel Salvana ngayong araw, Abril 9.
Aniya, "The data studies that are coming out really don't show that it's working. Early data showed that maybe it works in a Petri dish, maybe it works in certain subsets of patients, but when they did the big clinical trials with proper controls for any kind of bias, it turns out it doesn't work."
Paliwanag pa niya, "The supposed anti-viral dose of Ivermectin is about 5 times or higher than. So, I'm really concerned as a doctor if there will be toxic side effects because we do know that there are neurologic side effects of Ivermectin if taken at higher dose or even in usual doses.”
Matatandaang pinayagan na ng Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ang ‘compassionate use permit’ sa isang ospital upang gamitin ang Ivermectin sa pasyenteng may COVID-19. Gayunman, hindi rin ginagarantiya ng FDA ang safety at efficacy nito laban sa sakit.
"Unfortunately, we also have, aside from a viral pandemic, we have a pandemic of misinformation where everybody thinks they can read journals, read the science when they're not properly trained to do so. This is something we called epistemic trespassing where experts in some field feel that they can competently talk about something that's not in their field and that's really dangerous," sabi pa ni Dr. Salvana.