Oleandrin has been pitched to the president on the recommendation of major supporter Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow.
President Trump suggested he's open to looking at a botanical extract being touted by a major donor, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, as a treatment for COVID-19, even though it comes from a poisonous plant and there have been no medical studies to show if it's safe or effective in people.
Lindell, whom the president has called"a supporter from day one," joined the board of Phoenix Biotechnology last week — the company seeking to develop and market the product. Lindell does not have a scientific background. In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Lindell said he has been taking oleandrin since April and referred to it as"the miracle of all time." He claimed that the extract has been tested on humans but offered no evidence of this. A study that has not been published and has not been peer reviewed examined the effect of oleandrin on African green monkey cells in a test tube and found that it"greatly" reduced virus production.
Story continuesQuave, an assistant professor at Emory University who was not involved in the study, noted that this test doesn't address the"well-known cardiac toxicity of the chemical when consumed by an animal or human."
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