"They used us as an experiment" Arkansas inmates who were given ivermectin to treat COVID file suit

[L. Coyote]

Source: CBS News

"They used us as an experiment": Arkansas inmates who were given ivermectin to treat COVID file federal lawsuit against jail

A group of men detained at Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas say that the jail's medical staff gave them the anti-parasite drug ivermectin last year, without their consent, to treat COVID-19, while telling them the pills were "vitamins." On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of the inmates, filed a federal lawsuit against the jail and its doctor.

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The lawsuit claims that medical staff at the jail gave the men ivermectin as early as November 2020, and that the men did not become aware of what the pill was until well after they received it. At a local finance and budget committee meeting last August, county sheriff Tim Helder confirmed that the facility's doctor Dr. Robert Karas prescribed ivermectin.

.... "Mr. Wooten, however, received 48 mg over a period of four days," the lawsuit says, "3.4 times the approved dosage."

.... Even now, Sarah Moore of the Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition said that it's unclear if COVID protocols have changed at the detention center. When CBS News spoke with Floreal-Wooten, he was in the quarantine barracks. He and other detainees did not have face masks, just black bandanas, he showed us over video.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arkansas-inmates-ivermectin-federal-lawsuit-jail/

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Great to hear they are represented and suing.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. A Republican Medical Control Group!

In prison, sure, why not!

[Slammer]

6. why not?

Well, the "why not" part comes in when you remember that they're being very vocal about wanting to lock up people who are vocally Democrats.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather not be part of their next round of medical experiments.

[orangecrush]

9. Fuck them

Sideways.

And welcome to D.U..

[GB_RN]

2. Why Am I Not Surprised?

Wonder if Senator "Tehran" Tom Cotton knows anything about this. I'm not saying he does know, I'm "just asking questions", as that side likes to say.

[Freethinker65]

3. Horrendous.

[cbabe]

4. De-license so-called doctor.

[Grokenstein]

5. Wonder if rightwankers will make Holocaust comparisons to this?

Ha ha ha, of course not.

[Chicago1980]

7. So the Republican Party is now into burning books

And performing unethical experiments on people.

Mengele much?

[orangecrush]

8. How much more

Are we going to take from these looneys?

[ck4829]

10. Good question

[Solly Mack]

12. I'd like to see people go to prison for this.

[machoneman]

13. At the risk of getting a DU warning, Dr. Mengele's ghost lives again in this prison.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele

[YP_Yooper]

14. This is the most horrific issue

"Gary Sullivan, legal director of the ACLU of Arkansas, issued a statement saying that "no one — including incarcerated individuals — should be deceived and subject to medical experimentation."

Tuskegee, MKUltra, anyone? There was the Philly experiments too: [link:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/black-prison-inmates-experiments|

Ivermectin isn't the issue. Max medically recommended safe dose is 5 times more than what the prisoners had, so nothing more risky than aspirin. It's also an anti-viral (at least it was proven pre-COVID)

The medicine isn't the issue. The Mengele-like attitude that the government will inject you with crap you're not fully aware of is.

[TeamProg]

15. If you're a rotten person, you're probably a registered Republican. ____________ n/t

[riversedge]

16. OMG. Hard to believe it is 2022 and horrible treatment such as this is going on yet.

[malletgirl02]

17. This is the real example

Of the Tuskegee experiment, not the vaccine.