Arkansas Inmates Prescribed Ivermectin For Covid

An Arkansas jail has been found to be prescribing an animal parasite medicine to inmates to treat COVID-19.

A member of the Washington County Quorum Court, the local legislative body, said during a meeting on Tuesday that she learned about a doctor, Robert Karas, who had been giving the drug ivermectin to inmates at Karas Correctional.

The member, Eva Madison, also said she learned of a county employee being prescribed the drug by the doctor after testing negative for COVID-19. Karas allegedly told her to pick up the medicine, which cost $76, at his pharmacy.

The employee’s primary care doctor quickly instructed him to throw the medicine away.

“I heard a report from a county employee who was sent there, to Dr. Karas, for testing, tested negative, was given a prescription for ivermectin, was told to go to Dr. Karas’s pharmacy just off campus to have it filled, when the employee reported it to his primary care physician,” Madison said.

“His primary care physician said, ‘You need to throw that in the trash.’ He's out $76 because of Dr. Karas prescribing dewormer to a county employee for treatment of a condition that he didn't have,” Madison added.

She said the doctor’s position for treating inmates at the facility is “raising a lot of eyebrows in the medical community in Washington County and around.”

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Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19

COVID-19. We’ve been living with it for what sometimes seems like forever. Given the number of deaths that have occurred from the disease, it’s perhaps not surprising that some consumers are looking at unconventional treatments, not approved or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Though this is understandable, please beware. The FDA’s job is to carefully evaluate the scientific data on a drug to be sure that it is both safe and effective for a particular use, and then to decide whether or not to approve it. Using any treatment for COVID-19 that’s not approved or authorized by the FDA, unless part of a clinical trial, can cause serious harm.

There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals. The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.

Here’s What You Need to Know about Ivermectin

FDA has not approved ivermectin for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. Ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an anti-viral (a drug for treating viruses).

Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.

If you have a prescription for ivermectin for an FDA-approved use, get it from a legitimate source and take it exactly as prescribed.

Never use medications intended for animals on yourself. Ivermectin preparations for animals are very different from those approved for humans.

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