Oleandrin treatment for coronavirus is ‘nonsense’ right now, experts say
CNNCNN — Is the White House about to promote a new, unproven and sketchy coronavirus treatment? “This is really just nonsense and a distraction,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner, CNN medical analyst and a professor of medicine at George Washington University, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Even after animal testing it could still fail in clinical trials.” Last week, Lindell was added to the board of Phoenix Biotechnology, which makes oleandrin, and received a financial stake in the company. “It’s somewhat odd or bizarre the way the President or the White House tends to go for these really strange types of miracle cures.” Reiner likened it to President Trump’s previous support of hydroxychloroquine, now shown to be unhelpful in treating coronavirus. “What is bothersome to me about this is less about this worthless botanical but more about the sidelining of scientists and the elevation of these sketchy characters who have access to the President and can tell the President that ‘something’s magic – you should approve it.’ It’s incredibly disturbing to me,” Reiner said.
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