MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) is open to having its isolation facilities be used as sites for the clinical trials on the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin in COVID-19 treatment if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it will not harm patients, PRC Chairman and Senator Richard Gordon said Friday.
Gordon said researchers of the clinical trials have reached out to the PRC for the possible use of its facilities for the trials.
“Sabi ko I will consider it first. Papayag lang ako kapag sinabi ng FDA, sinabi ng let’s say mga informed scientists, ‘Sige i-test mo walang makakasama dyan’ at kung papayag ang tao,” Gordon said in a…
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