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Duterte getting COVID-19 shots in the bum? It should work, expert says

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/01/27/20210125-duterte-mondau-ho-3.jpg"/><figcaption>President Rodrigo Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Matina, Davao City, Jan. 25, 2021. <em>Toto Lozano, Presidential Photo</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Theoretically, it should work.</p><p>A health expert has this to say following an announcement from Malacañang that President Rodrigo Duterte will take COVID-19 shots in the rear.</p><p>&quot;Any muscle should be fine. Any big muscle. Whether it&#x27;s the arm or the butt, it should work,&quot; Dr. Edsel Salvaña, member of the technical advisory group that advises the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), told ANC.</p><p>However, he noted that those who have been inoculated in the US got it in the arm or deltoid.</p><p>&quot;Theoretically, you can use it on the butt. But unless there&#x27;s some reason you have little muscle on the arm, the arm is fine,&quot; he said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/26/21/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-puwet-shot-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine">Butt shot? Duterte to get COVID-19 shots in private, Palace reiterates</a></li></ul><p>Salvaña, also the director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of the Philippines - National Institutes of Health, said the vaccines were developed &quot; in such a way you want to put it in an area where the body can recognize them and have a good immune response.&quot;</p><p>&quot;There are other routes, such as subcutaneous, never intravenous, where you can ensure the body has adequate response,&quot; he said.</p><p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001226.htm">In a report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>, it said that deltoid is generally used for routine intramuscular vaccine administration in adults.</p><p>&quot;The buttocks should not be routinely used as a vaccination site for infants and children; and, to avoid injury to the sciatic nerves, they are generally not used in adults,&quot; it said.</p><p>The national public health institute said the central region of the buttocks should be avoided for all injections.</p><p>&quot;The site selected should be well into the upper, outer mass of the gluteus maximus and away from the central region of the buttocks,&quot; it said.</p><p>In a press briefing Tuesday, presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the chief executive would get the COVID-19 jabs in private.</p><p>&quot;Sabi nga niya dahil sa puwet siya magpapasaksak, hindi pupuwedeng public,&quot; he told reporters.</p><p>(He said he would get the vaccine shots on his buttocks, so it cannot be in public.)</p><p>The 75-year-old Duterte, who has underlying health issues, belongs to the groups vulnerable of developing severe symptoms of the respiratory disease.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jvTUiJ3xetI?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>