Jail doctor prescribes livestock drug ivermectin to detainees with covid-19 despite FDA warnings

WaPo ^ | Aug 26, 2021 | Kim Bellware

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An Arkansas jail and its health-care provider are facing criticisms of “medical experimentation” because the jail’s medical staff has been treating covid-19 patients with ivermectin, a drug commonly used for deworming livestock.

Washington County Justice of the Peace Eva Madison (D) said she heard reports of the practice Tuesday after a county employee visited a Karas Health Care coronavirus testing site at the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville and was prescribed ivermectin despite testing negative for the coronavirus.

Karas is one of three health-care providers accessible to employees on the county health-care plan. It operates in the jail as Karas Correctional Health.

“When this employee told me that, I thought, ‘Our sheriff has common sense. He’ll know what’s going on,’ ” Madison told The Washington Post on Wednesday. Madison said she has a good rapport with Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder but was dismayed when he confirmed her suspicions — and defended the practice.

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Press conference Tokyo
https://youtu.be/xkWOpFk1GGk

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks !

[Scrambler Bob]

Calling it a livestock drug.
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Aren’t we all livestock, evolutionarily speaking?

[lastchance]

Mooooooooooo.