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Gov’t calls for volunteers in the implementation of the WHO Solidarity trial
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 16) The government is calling for medical volunteers who would want to help out in the implementation of the World Health Organization Solidarity trial in the country.
“We really need the support of as many people as possible especially
itong ating
mga [our] nurses,” Jaime Montoya, executive director of the DOST- Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, said on Saturday.
Montoya also noted that around 20 trial teams will be deployed for the said program that will be composed of medical professionals like doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and medical technologists.
IATF forms panel of experts to monitor coronavirus variants By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published January 6, 2021 11:05am
Updated January 6, 2021 11:14am The Philippines’ COVID-19 task force has created a panel of experts that will monitor and identify the occurrence of new coronavirus variants in the country. Headed by Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, the technical working group is also mandated to provide policy recommendations to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on the appropriate response regarding these variants. The other members of the panel are the following: Executive Director Jaime Montoya of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (co-chairperson)
(NOEL CELIS / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
“Why settle for 50 percent efficacy when we can go for the vaccines with 95 percent efficacy? Let us give our people the best protection they deserve. Buhay ng mamamayang Pilipino ang nakataya dito. (The lives of the Filipino people are at stake here),” Fortun said.
According to the member of the House minority bloc, it would be “nonsense” for the Filipinos and the Duterte government to choose the China vaccine “at this point.”
He noted that the vaccines of Pfizer and Moderna have up to 95 percent and 94 percent efficacy based on Phase 3 clinical trial results while the China vaccine has yet to complete Phase 3 testing and available information showed only 50 percent efficacy and costing about the same as the vaccines with 94 to 95 percent efficacy.