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Arkansas doctor under investigation
CNN ^ | August 27, 2021 | Devon M. Sayers and Rebekah Riess

Posted on 08/30/2021 1:18:09 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal

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Madison said Karas defended his use of the drug during a phone conservation and again in a subsequent television interview after the practice came to light. Karas told television station KFSM that he began last October with prescribing the drug and has subsequently given it to family members and "thousands" of others. The doctor also recorded the station's interview with his own camera and posted it online.

"Do you want us to try and fight like we're at the beaches of Normandy? Or do you want me to tell what a lot of people do and say -- oh, go home and ride it out and go to the ER when your lips turn blue," Karas said. Karas said that he started to use ivermectin in the jail population starting in November on "high-risk patients over 40." The doctor defended his practice ,saying no deaths have been reported due to Covid-19 out of the 531 cases in the jail.

CNN called the Washington County Sheriff's Office to confirm the number of Covid-19 patients treated at the jail and was referred back to Karas, since he is contracted to provide medical services. Calls to the doctor's office have not been returned.

The Arkansas Medical Board has opened an investigation into the matter, Meg Mirivel, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Health, told CNN. Due to the ongoing investigation the department was not able to comment further.

The sheriff's department declined to comment further or provide additional information about inmate care. The Sheriff's office defended the practices to the local paper, saying all treatment is "voluntary."

"They are able to refuse any medication they're offered. Even with the vaccine, it's all voluntary," Chief Deputy Jay Cantrell told the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

"I believe it's the county and the sheriff's constitutional duty to provide the detainees adequate and appropriate medical care." Madison told CNN.

"No one -- including incarcerated individuals -- should be subject to medical experimentation," Holly Dickson, executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas, said in a statement, adding that the sheriff "has a responsibility to provide food, shelter and safe, appropriate care to incarcerated people."

In a CDC health advisory issued Thursday, the agency said the use of ivermectin can result in "gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Overdoses are associated with hypotension and neurologic effects such as decreased consciousness, confusion, hallucinations, seizures, coma, and death."

1 posted on 08/30/2021 1:18:09 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Looks like a cheap hit job.


2 posted on 08/30/2021 1:21:12 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Just because Ivermectin works is no reason to take money out of Phziers hands or board members like Fauci.


3 posted on 08/30/2021 1:22:25 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Medicine should be about what works, not what the politicians in Washington tell everyone.

We are living 1984.


4 posted on 08/30/2021 1:24:18 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Well, if no one should be subject to experimental treatments, then they should not offer the vaccine. Just saying.


5 posted on 08/30/2021 1:25:26 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: taxcontrol

The chart shows the Delta Variant new cases dropping off a cliff: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases


6 posted on 08/30/2021 1:26:38 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

DID ANY OF THEM GET COVID? OR RECOVER WHEN GIVEN IT?

Or does that not matter?


7 posted on 08/30/2021 1:26:46 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Here is a quote from the doctor from another article on this a few days ago. “I am proud of our track record in both of my clinics and at the jail in particular, where not one single patient of the five hundred plus who have followed our plan of care has been hospitalized, intubated or died.”


8 posted on 08/30/2021 1:27:52 PM PDT by TBall
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To: dblshot

Remember, President Trump worked hard to lower prescription prices.

Maybe this entire COVID thing is Big Pharma trying to make up the lost profits, and flip the bird to Trump.

Anything’s possible these days!


9 posted on 08/30/2021 1:28:28 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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"The doctor defended his practice ,saying no deaths have been reported due to Covid-19 out of the 531 cases in the jail."

Well there is that.

10 posted on 08/30/2021 1:28:41 PM PDT by Bearshouse
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There is another article posted about him here. He has treated 500, zero deaths, intubations, hospitalizations


11 posted on 08/30/2021 1:29:15 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: definitelynotaliberal

“The doctor also recorded the station’s interview with his own camera and posted it online.”

Any conservative who DOES NOT do the above deserves the result.


12 posted on 08/30/2021 1:29:48 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

FDA “warnings “ and CDC “guidelines” are NOT laws.


13 posted on 08/30/2021 1:30:24 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: Mr. K

Did any of them get sick enough that they needed to be hospitalized? Did any of them die from COVID?

Seems like results should matter.


14 posted on 08/30/2021 1:31:17 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I’m surprised to see that FayetteNam still has some rebellious redneck in it.

The University politically correct effete elite pretty much run the show there.


15 posted on 08/30/2021 1:32:09 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: dblshot

Commies only want the vaccine because the vaccine puts BIG BUCKS into BIG PHARMA who then gives the money to the Dem party


16 posted on 08/30/2021 1:34:50 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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DID ANY OF THEM GET COVID? OR RECOVER WHEN GIVEN IT? Or does that not matter?

What do you suppose ZERO deaths means? It means they had it, recovered, and didn't die. Shouldn't you be in school today?

17 posted on 08/30/2021 1:37:09 PM PDT by RideForever (Know Islam, No Peace; No Islam, Know Peace)
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The drug is used to treat parasitic infections, primarily in livestock...

Bullshit. It's widely used on humans in Africa for River Blindness. It has also been shown to be very effective in treating Covid-19. Over 30 studies show its effectiveness:

https://rumble.com/vlpecw-the-story-of-ivermectin.html

Why is the MSM and the gov't hiding these results?

18 posted on 08/30/2021 1:39:12 PM PDT by econjack
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Exactly, that’s the scam. 76 trombones led the the big parade...


19 posted on 08/30/2021 1:39:41 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: RideForever

bite my ass you smarmy little pissant


20 posted on 08/30/2021 1:40:02 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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