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The MyPillow Guy Wants To Bring Trump’s COVID Miracle Cure to Life | Vanity Fair
Move over hydroxychloroquine! The president is reportedly now interested in Oleandrin, an experimental botanical extract being promoted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindel
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For months, Donald Trump promoted the off-label use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 therapy, even claiming to have taken a course of the anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic. But as the evidence against its effectiveness and potential dangers continues to mount—Dr. Anthony Fauci last month emphasized that studies have “consistently” shown the drug to have “no efficacy” in treating coronavirus—the president may have begun to turn toward a new, unproven miracle cure, this one peddled by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and...MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell?
Yes, you read that right. Carson and the pillow pitchman, a GOP megadonor and Trump ally, have gotten the president interested in an experimental botanical extract they say could treat COVID-19, raising concerns among some government officials, Axios reported Sunday. Trump, who has been searching for an easy way out of the coronavirus crisis since it started, has reportedly “expressed enthusiasm” for Oleandrin, as Carson and Lindell push for Food and Drug Administration approval, though—like hydroxychloroquine—there is no proof that it works. “The involvement of the Secretary of HUD and MyPillow.com in pushing a dubious product at the highest levels should give Americans no comfort at night about their health and safety during a raging pandemic,” a senior administration official familiar with the matter told Jonathan Swan.
Trump’s fondness for the unproven experimental extract is just the latest instance in which he’s latched on to a quick fix for the coronavirus crisis, the biggest obstacle to bid for re-election, in hopes that he can make it all go away without him having to do anything about it. Nationwide mask mandate? Robust testing regime? Who needs them if you’ve got an oleander extract that hasn’t been adequately tested, but that Lindell—who invests in the company that makes it—swears by? “This is the most amazing miracle thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Lindell told Axios. “I went all in.”
Lindell—whose last turn in the national spotlight came in March when he lavished “dear leader”-style praise on the president during a White House event (“Boy, do you sell those pillows,” a pleased Trump said in reply)—used his inside track with Trump to get Andrew Whitney of Phoenix Biotechnology, the company that makes the botanical extract, an Oval Office meeting. Whitney is working to get the extract approved by the FDA as a dietary supplement, but maintains that it has the power to make COVID-19 symptoms disappear in a “vast majority of cases.” He has provided no actual proof to support his claim, though, either to Axios or the administration, beyond saying “the data is compelling.” “I’m telling you,” he told Axios. “I’ve seen it with my own eyes.”
A non-peer reviewed lab study has shown some evidence in Oleandrin blunting the virus. But, as Axios reported, one of the authors of the study, Robert Newman, chairs the scientific advisory board of the company that produces it, and was previously listed as its president. The fact that just about everyone involved has some personal stake in the matter—Carson, a former neurosurgeon but not an expert in drug development or infectious diseases, is a friend of Lindell—is enough to give anyone with a level head pause, especially as they dispense with the measure and fallibility at the foundation of good science and sell the extract as a “miracle.” But Trump is far from level-headed, susceptible to all kinds of magical thinking, and, in the words of Lindell, “basically said...‘the FDA should be approving it.’”
See Oleandrin - Wikipedia.
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This stuff is no more an anti-viral drug effective against COVID-19 than potting soil is. And there is no possible way this can be tested & approved & brought to market in the time remaining before the election. And, besides, this stuff is lethal.
But with support from crazy Dr. Ben Carson (the pyramids were grain siloes), this hows exactly how desperate Trump is not to be thrown out of the WH for being an incompetent mass murderer.
Move over hydroxychloroquine! The president is reportedly now interested in Oleandrin, an experimental botanical extract being promoted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindel
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For months, Donald Trump promoted the off-label use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 therapy, even claiming to have taken a course of the anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic. But as the evidence against its effectiveness and potential dangers continues to mount—Dr. Anthony Fauci last month emphasized that studies have “consistently” shown the drug to have “no efficacy” in treating coronavirus—the president may have begun to turn toward a new, unproven miracle cure, this one peddled by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and...MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell?
Yes, you read that right. Carson and the pillow pitchman, a GOP megadonor and Trump ally, have gotten the president interested in an experimental botanical extract they say could treat COVID-19, raising concerns among some government officials, Axios reported Sunday. Trump, who has been searching for an easy way out of the coronavirus crisis since it started, has reportedly “expressed enthusiasm” for Oleandrin, as Carson and Lindell push for Food and Drug Administration approval, though—like hydroxychloroquine—there is no proof that it works. “The involvement of the Secretary of HUD and MyPillow.com in pushing a dubious product at the highest levels should give Americans no comfort at night about their health and safety during a raging pandemic,” a senior administration official familiar with the matter told Jonathan Swan.
Trump’s fondness for the unproven experimental extract is just the latest instance in which he’s latched on to a quick fix for the coronavirus crisis, the biggest obstacle to bid for re-election, in hopes that he can make it all go away without him having to do anything about it. Nationwide mask mandate? Robust testing regime? Who needs them if you’ve got an oleander extract that hasn’t been adequately tested, but that Lindell—who invests in the company that makes it—swears by? “This is the most amazing miracle thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Lindell told Axios. “I went all in.”
Lindell—whose last turn in the national spotlight came in March when he lavished “dear leader”-style praise on the president during a White House event (“Boy, do you sell those pillows,” a pleased Trump said in reply)—used his inside track with Trump to get Andrew Whitney of Phoenix Biotechnology, the company that makes the botanical extract, an Oval Office meeting. Whitney is working to get the extract approved by the FDA as a dietary supplement, but maintains that it has the power to make COVID-19 symptoms disappear in a “vast majority of cases.” He has provided no actual proof to support his claim, though, either to Axios or the administration, beyond saying “the data is compelling.” “I’m telling you,” he told Axios. “I’ve seen it with my own eyes.”
A non-peer reviewed lab study has shown some evidence in Oleandrin blunting the virus. But, as Axios reported, one of the authors of the study, Robert Newman, chairs the scientific advisory board of the company that produces it, and was previously listed as its president. The fact that just about everyone involved has some personal stake in the matter—Carson, a former neurosurgeon but not an expert in drug development or infectious diseases, is a friend of Lindell—is enough to give anyone with a level head pause, especially as they dispense with the measure and fallibility at the foundation of good science and sell the extract as a “miracle.” But Trump is far from level-headed, susceptible to all kinds of magical thinking, and, in the words of Lindell, “basically said...‘the FDA should be approving it.’”
See Oleandrin - Wikipedia.
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This stuff is no more an anti-viral drug effective against COVID-19 than potting soil is. And there is no possible way this can be tested & approved & brought to market in the time remaining before the election. And, besides, this stuff is lethal.
But with support from crazy Dr. Ben Carson (the pyramids were grain siloes), this hows exactly how desperate Trump is not to be thrown out of the WH for being an incompetent mass murderer.
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