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Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 26, 2021

Washington County, Arkansas, officials said yesterday at a finance and budget committee meeting that inmates at the county jail have been treated for COVID-19 with ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug commonly used for livestock. The discovery was made after a county employee tested positive for the virus and later received a prescription for ivermectin. “The employee had the good fortune of having a primary care physician to ask for a second opinion and our inmates do not have the choice,” said Eva Madison, Washington County Justice of the Peace. The county sheriff defended the jail’s health care partner at the meeting.  “Whatever a doctor prescribes, that is not in my bailiwick. I haven’t been to medical school,” he said. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) later released a statement condemning “medical experimentation” on anyone, including inmates and said it had requested records from the sheriff’s office and its health care partner, Karas Correctional Medical. WKRN has the full story