Posted on 08/27/2021 6:41:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dr. Robert Karas, who owns Karas Health Care in Arkansas, said he began using the drug in late 2020 to treat people with the disease.
The Arkansas State Medical Board is investigating a doctor who used ivermectin to treat his patients, as well as inmates at the Washington County jail, suffering from Covid-19.
The board said Friday that it has an open probe into Dr. Robert Karas, who owns Karas Health Care, which has facilities in Fayetteville and Lowell and provides medical services to detainees at the jail.
"Once the investigation is complete, the information will be provided to the full Board to review and to be discussed at the next scheduled Board Meeting," board Director Amy Embry said in a statement. "No additional information is available at this time."
Karas declined to be interviewed Friday because of his schedule but said in an emailed statement that he began using the drug in late 2020 to treat patients and inmates "who had become significantly sick from Covid."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have warned against using ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid. On Thursday, the CDC said that there has been a rise in calls to poison control centers for reports of overdoses after people have taken the drug.
The FDA on Saturday urged people to stop taking it. It said that while FDA-approved ivermectin tablets can treat certain conditions caused by parasitic worms in humans, the drug is not an approved medication for the coronavirus. Generally, ivermectin is used to treat or prevent parasites in animals.
"You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it," the FDA tweeted, alongside a consumer update detailing why the drug can be unsafe for humans.
Karas said he is aware of the FDA and CDC warnings.
"In my medical judgment, weighing the known risks and side effect profile of ivermectin against the potential benefits supports the administration of Ivermectin," he said in the statement. "I do not have the luxury of conducting my own clinical trial or study and am not attempting to do so. I am on the front line of trying to prevent death and serious illness.
"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."
Karas said he obtained the drug from a licensed pharmacist in dosages and compounds "formulated for humans."
A concert during Covid with screaming and dancing? Here's why they did it. He said he encourages people to get vaccinated against the virus and advised against self-administering ivermectin.
"I do not own an interest in any pharmacy and receive no benefits whatsoever from prescribing Ivermectin," he said. "I have no ambitions or agenda other than caring for the sick."
He did not respond to questions about the state medical board's investigation.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. Sheriff Tim Helder recently defended Karas, saying he feels "pretty good" about the quality of care the doctor has provided.
“Whatever a doctor prescribes, that is not in my bailiwick,” he told members of the Washington County quorum court, the county’s governing body.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas slammed the sheriff and said the jail has failed to provide "safe and appropriate treatments" for inmates.
“No one - including incarcerated individuals - should be subject to medical experimentation," Executive Director Holly Dickson said in a statement. "Sheriff Helder has a responsibility to provide food, shelter and safe, appropriate care to incarcerated people. The FDA has said that misuse of ivermectin for COVID-19 can cause serious harm including seizures, comas, and even death."
The union said it has requested records from Helder and Karas related to inmates and Covid precautions and care.
Just a shadow of the guy you used to know. Might be crazy; might just be high
A cure for cancer would get you the death penalty.
Actually, I think it was published. People just don’t read research reports. Animals on diets without omega 6 fats don’t get cancer.
You can’t be going around curing people. It will undermine the liberals’ power.
Doctors prescribe medication for off label use all the time.
In order to protect her health, a friend’s husband took a shot to keep from getting COVID. (She’s having cancer treatments)
It broke through, and SHE caught the COVID that he didn’t have before the shot.
Ivermectin (prescribed by her MD) brought her back around quickly and completely
Anecdotal? - sure! But we have a friend who is NOT six-feet under at least.
How dare someone use a safe cheap drug to prevent and treat the Fauci Flu.
“...which mandated their vaccines as the only approved and allowed treatment for Covid-19.”
Close. Their vaccines weren’t (and imho still aren’t) FDA approved vaccines. BUT, they were given emergency use authorization because there is “no treatment” for Covid-19.
And it is amazing all the stuff ivermectin is used for in humans. Parasites of course, but skin rashes, river blindness, and a whole bunch of others. The maker of the drug got the Nobel for it.
“Doctors prescribe medication for off label use all the time.”
Like giving testosterone to a female in an attempt to make her a “boy”. That is not an approved treatment!
This is the most stunning piece of video I have ever seen. It is still up on Youtube which is even more amazing..
Bret & Heather 80th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: What Covid Reveals about our Leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxTODvTNHlw&t=3288s
Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (Both Ph.D.’s in Biology) formerly of Evergreen University fame, have a long-running series of discussions about various topics. The topic of this PAINFUL 1:38 hour podcast is Ivermectin and digs into the evidence and the raw evidence that it is being suppressed so that the EUL that makes the Vaccine Mandates possible could go forward. This is the same reason behind the immediate hysterical reaction against HCQ. If something wasn’t available, this hell potion that these drug companies have created wouldn’t be killing and sickening so many people around the world.
Watch this.. weep and get angry.
The upside of this.. though is that these scientists also explain why Ivermectin is such a powerful drug to use in this situation, better than HCQ plus Zinc. Zinc is a poison, it is not safe to take long term. And, it is hard to tell when you are clear of the Covid.. It is a good strategy though for colds and flu so, I wouldn’t throw it out. But, the Ivermectin binds the spike proteins which means it may even treat the “Vaccine” spike proteins that have escaped the injection site.. which they do, and cause all sorts of problems. However, this won’t help the graphene medium which is also a problem with these injections in that it cannot be eliminated from the body but it does pool in places like the ovaries of women, and causes problems too.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have warned against using ivermectin...”
Funny thing, their Japanese equivalent just okayed it for Japan. But, probably, the Japanese equivalent organization does not get 70 percent of their budget from drug companies that make the vaccines, etc.
Taking away the cure while the kill us with theirs
Tom Baker!
The best Dr. Who’ever!
Only a short two or three weeks ago my primary care provider told me that he has been in the blind about how to treat any
covid 19 patient — no direction from the CDC. I guess enough noise has been made and the CDC is now paying for an antibiotic that he can tell his patients to go to a urgent care and get free. But now that the CDC has blemished their reputation, i will wonder about anything the CDC recommends.
So when I read about Ivermectin, I told the doctor. Now I know why. he was against it, it’s the CDC.
I know that my doctor is so busy and tired that he has little time to search the internet for information — and we all know the masses of people who are scrubbed or prevented from finding — when it comes to truth.
You’re supposed to treat the patients not cure them!
Yep, that is the money quote from the article. “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.”
No mention that Ivermectin is a Nobel prize winnnig antibacterial / antiviral drug shown to be effective by Fauci against SARS-1.
Well, the authorities need to go after American Journal of Therapeutics!
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