The Arkansas Medical Board is investigating a physician who prescribed ivermectin to thousands of patients for the treatment of COVID-19. Even inmates in a state jail. According to CNN reports, it is Dr. Robert Karas, who provides medical services in the Washington County jail.
THE FACTS:
The case was exposed after Justice of the Peace Eva Madison, during a hearing on the county budget in Fayetteville. Reveal that he was told by a local official that a prison medical provider was prescribing ivermectin. The above, to treat and prevent the disease.
What is ivermectin and what is it for?
The antiparasitic ivermectin is widely used in the veterinary field and is mainly used for treatment. As well as for the control of internal and external parasites of bovines, pigs, sheep and goats. In addition to gastrointestinal, lung and kidney diseases.
Injections of this drug are used externally to combat Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus ticks. As well as chewing lice, scabies mites and fly larvae.
The doctor has been prescribing the drug since 2020
As we mentioned earlier, ivermectin is a veterinary drug. Which, for some decades, has been used legally to combat parasites in humans. Some studies indicated that it could be useful in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued strict and repeated warnings against treating COVID-19 with this drug.
According to the source medium, the judge assures that Dr. Karas defended the use of this substance during a telephone conversation. And later in a TV interview after the practice came to light. Karas said he has been prescribing the drug since October 2020 and has administered it to family members and “thousands of people.”
What the studies say …
A scientific article published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. It showed the results of using a COVID-19 treatment in outpatient cases.
The components were:
- Ivermectin.
- Montelukast.
- Azithromycin.
- Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
The organisms do not agree that some doctor prescribes ivermectin …
The results are not a green light for the use of ivermectin in COVID-19 treatments.
In fact, the use of this drug is discouraged by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Likewise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have a position against the use of this drug to treat COVID-19. While the World Health Organization (WHO) only recommends its use in “clinical trials”.
About the results of the previous study
The researchers, who are mostly Mexican, studied 768 cases of COVID-19 between the ages of 18 and 80.
Of this population investigated, 481 cases were treated with the treatment proposed by the study.
However, the researchers note that the patients had a low prevalence of previous illnesses. And that a high proportion of the treatment recipients were young men. What they see as influencing the results.
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