Arkansas doctor under investigation for prescribing ivermectin thousands of timesfor Covid-19 despite FDA warning
"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 ,sayingno 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.
"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."
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