US court in action as coronavirus treatment frauds increase
First it was bleach solution, then vitamin C and "ozone therapy", and now the massive infusion of silver beverages. The US Department of Justice is taking down the bogus coronavirus treatment which have spread as rapidly as the disease.
A federal court in Utah on Wednesday moved to stop the latest scheme to capitalize on public fears over the COVID-19 pandemic.
It ordered Gordon Pedersen to temporarily stop marketing "ingestible silver" as a protection against the corona virus
It also stopped the assets of Pederson, who markets himself as a "Doctor" and his two companies, My Doctor Suggests LLC and GP Silver LLC, to promote or selling silver products which supposedly work against Covid 19.
Pedersen, who says he has a doctorate degrees in toxic and natural remedies, has been promoting silver solutions, gels, soaps and capsules as treatment since at least 2014, according to court documents.
Since coronavirus broke out in the United States, he has said in marketing videos and podcasts that ingesting silver "can destroy coronavirus, and remove it from the body, assuring the user will never get COVID-19."
Pedersen is not the only one to sell unproven coronavirus protections and cures to innocent consumers.
In Detroit, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against a doctor and spa owner for pushing vitamin C infusion as a treatment.
A Texas company also said it could treat the disease with "ozone therapy."
And in Florida, the department went to the self-made church to stop marketing a bleach product, its "miracle mineral solution," as a protection.
The latter case came to light after US President Donald Trump suggested on national television that injecting the body with disinfectants could help fight the disease, which has been criticized by health experts and condemned.
"The Department of Justice will take swift action to protect consumers from those who would recklessly exploit this public health crisis by offering phony cure-alls for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19," Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said in a statement about the Utah case.
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