Mountaineer wrote, Afraid that this MAY show tha

Mountaineer wrote,

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Afraid that this MAY show that they are not considering approving prior to the USA FDA approval. I think that has been discussed and some hoping it would be.

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Here's why I do not think the Philippines necessarily is waiting for US EUA. Yesterday the city of Manila got1000 vials of tocilizumab. But here's the interesting thing. The Manila Times wrote:

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On April 2020, the use of tocilizumab in treating COVID-19 has been approved by the Department of Health (DOH) based on the results of the Solidarity Trials of the World Health Organization (WHO).

This means the PI Dept. of Health is willing to approve based on trials rather US FDA EUA approval. Tocilizumab failed its US Covid trials in terms of primary and secondary endpoints, one of which was mortality. (Though it has shown some benefit in other trials.)

So it must be at least possible that the PI will approve without the US doing it.

I do know I wrote all of this yesterday. Self-reference, it is said, is the greatest form of flattery.