The prisoners say they were unknowingly prescribed the drug despite warnings from health officials.
The plaintiffs were named as Edrick Floreal-Wooten, Jeremiah Little, Julio Gonzales and Dayman Blackburn.
"No-one - including incarcerated individuals - should be deceived and subject to medical experimentation,""The detention centre failed to use safe and appropriate treatments for Covid-19, even in the midst of a pandemic, and they must be held accountable." But in a letter sent by his lawyer to investigators in September when the accusations first came to light,Dr Karas said that 254 inmates had been treated with the drug since November 2020.a statement last year urging people not to take Ivermectin for Covid-19.There was a spike in prescriptions of the drug in the US in summer 2021, and the Center For Disease Control and Prevention said calls to poison control centres across the US about human exposure to Ivermectin rose sharply at that time.
It has been championed as a "miracle drug" by Covid vaccine opponents, and health authorities in some countries have approved it.
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