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Dangerous Oleander Extract Not a COVID-19 Cure

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Mary Wilson

Well-known member
— "That would definitely end up killing people"

by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today August 18, 2020

An unusual and highly toxic compound is making headlines after President Trump reportedly supported it in a conversation in the Oval Office.

Axios reports that Trump voiced support for oleandrin, a botanical made from the poisonous oleander plant, during a July meeting attended by MyPillow.com founder and CEO Mike Lindell and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, MD.

Lindell, a longtime Trump supporter who has a stake in the biotech that's developing oleandrin -- Phoenix Biotechnology -- told Axios that Trump said "the FDA should be approving it."

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, MD, has resisted any efforts around the compound, according to Axios, but Phoenix Biotechnology director Andrew Whitney has said if he can't get oleandrin to market as a drug, he'll push for it as a dietary supplement.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/88126
 
Reference to Axios in above post:

Trump eyes new unproven coronavirus "cure"

Aug 16, 2020 - Health
Jonathan Swan

To the alarm of some government health officials, President Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Food and Drug Administration to permit an extract from the oleander plant to be marketed as a dietary supplement or, alternatively, approved as a drug to cure COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works.

... There is no public data showing oleandrin has ever been tested in animals or humans for its efficacy against COVID-19, but the extract has shown some evidence of inhibiting the virus in a non-peer reviewed laboratory study.

... Asked why the HUD secretary was promoting an unproven botanical extract to cure COVID-19, a Carson spokesperson emailed the following statement to Axios: "Secretary Carson is a member of the Coronavirus Task Force, he has been directly involved with the Administration's response to this disease from the very beginning."

https://www.axios.com/trump-covid-oleandrin-9896f570-6cd8-4919-af3a-65ebad113d41.html
 
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