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xp1337 08/25/21 9:28:38 PM #15:	A jail in Arkansas has been treating inmates with COVID with a drug that the FDA has called completely unproven and dangerous. So we've now arrived at the "human medical experimentation on a population of people with no power or recourse" phase of the pandemic. https://www.thedailybeast.com/like-tuskegee-deep-south-jail-treats-covid-with-drug-fda-says-is-dangerous The Daily Beast reports... The head doctor at an Arkansas jail has been treating inmates suffering from COVID-19 with ivermectin, a drug commonly used to treat parasites in animals. A version of the same drug has been approved by the FDA for topical diseases in humans, but warned against by the agency as completely unproven - and downright dangerous - in treating the coronavirus. Still, the drug has been prematurely and widely hyped by conservatives and far-right types - some of whom oppose vaccines - as a sort of latter-day pandemic miracle drug. As The Daily Beast reported, this recently set off a wave of disturbing prescriptions and even calls to poison-control centers, in some cases over people who apparently took the "horse paste" version of the drug intended for animals. Story itself is even wilder. A county employee was sent to the jail to get a COVID test, it came back negative, but the doctor prescribed ivermectin. The employee tells his primary care physician about it who promptly tells him to "throw it in the trash." So then someone familiar with the incident approaches the sheriff who proceeds to defend the doctor. So she instead talks to the doctor directly about it and ends up in an internet style citation war where she presents the FDA report that it's unproven and dangerous. He responds with an NIH study, she replies that that NIH report itself concludes there's insufficient evidence to recommend the drug. So then the doctor goes to a web page of a study that was widely shared on social media but was rejected and removed by the journal it had been published in originally because it was found to contain unsubstantiated claims. So then she goes to a county budget meeting where the Sheriff's Office wanted to increase the doctor's budget and she brings it up there and again the Sheriff's Office defends the doctor. So they're continuing to double and triple down on this. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:957440927] in Politics C... [t:79627991]...</cite> <quote>A jail in Arkansas has been treating inmates with COVID with a drug that the FDA has called completely unproven and dangerous. So we've now arrived at the "human medical experimentation on a population of people with no power or recourse" phase of the pandemic. https://www.thedailybeast.com/like-tuskegee-deep-south-jail-treats-covid-with-drug-fda-says-is-dangerous The Daily Beast reports... <quote>The head doctor at an Arkansas jail has been treating inmates suffering from COVID-19 with ivermectin, a drug commonly used to treat parasites in animals. A version of the same drug has been approved by the FDA for topical diseases in humans, but warned against by the agency as completely unproven - and downright dangerous - in treating the coronavirus. Still, the drug has been prematurely and widely hyped by conservatives and far-right types - some of whom oppose vaccines - as a sort of latter-day pandemic miracle drug. As The Daily Beast reported, this recently set off a wave of disturbing prescriptions and even calls to poison-control centers, in some cases over people who apparently took the "horse paste" version of the drug intended for animals.</quote> Story itself is even wilder. A county employee was sent to the jail to get a COVID test, it came back negative, but the doctor prescribed ivermectin. The employee tells his primary care physician about it who promptly tells him to "throw it in the trash." So then someone familiar with the incident approaches the sheriff who proceeds to defend the doctor. So she instead talks to the doctor directly about it and ends up in an internet style citation war where she presents the FDA report that it's unproven and dangerous. He responds with an NIH study, she replies that that NIH report itself concludes there's insufficient evidence to recommend the drug. So then the doctor goes to a web page of a study that was widely shared on social media but was rejected and removed by the journal it had been published in originally because it was found to contain unsubstantiated claims. So then she goes to a county budget meeting where the Sheriff's Office wanted to increase the doctor's budget and she brings it up there and again the Sheriff's Office defends the doctor. So they're continuing to double and triple down on this. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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