Defying warnings from the Imperial County Medical Society, county supervisors heard a presentation Tuesday from two doctors who have promoted COVID-19 treatments not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
After their presentations Tuesday in El Centro, Fareed and Tyson were greeted with a standing ovation from some in the audience. The doctors had argued that COVID-19 can be effectively treated early on with a protocol that involves multiple drugs, including some not authorized by the FDA for treating the virus.
Kelley said the board fully supports vaccination and use of masks indoors, but since some people have refused such measures, “we want to make more information available to those people ... should they be so unfortunate as to contract COVID-19.” Ryan Kelley, who is not related to the Imperial County chairman, suggested conducting a clinical trial of the treatment protocol, funded by the local health authority. Another supervisor, Jesus Eduardo Escobar, invoked the movie “Dallas Buyers Club,” about AIDS patients getting unapproved pharmaceutical treatments.Dr.
Luis Flores Jr., co-founder of the Imperial Valley Equity and Justice Coalition, said he was disappointed that the county board had allowed the presentation to go forward, arguing that “putting that information in public space in a community where access to credible doctors is harder to come by is particularly dangerous.”attended school board meetings where Tyson argued against indoor mask mandates for children.
Flores Jr. said that bringing in the two doctors and “not having the county forcefully say this is false makes a medically underserved community susceptible to misinformation.”
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