According to [a justice of the peace], a county employee had been sent to the jail to get a COVID test, which turned out to be negative. Nonetheless, ... a doctor who has overseen treatment and testing of inmates throughout the pandemic, allegedly prescribed the employee with 50 tablets of ivermectin, with a recommended dosage of 10 tablets per day. The pharmacy where the prescription was sent..., confirmed to The Daily Beast that [the doctor] has been filling out prescriptions there for ivermectin for both inmates and other patients.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette:
Washington County Sheriff ... on Tuesday confirmed that the medical provider for the Detention Center has been prescribing ivermectin to detainees to treat them for the covid-19 virus.
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"Whatever a doctor prescribes, that's out of my bailiwick," [the sheriff] said. "But I will stake their record against any medical provider in any correctional facility in the United States. Doctors prescribe. They've been to medical school. I haven't."