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Chinese exile Guo Wengui uses misinformation network to push unproven drugs to treat Covid

  • Wealthy Chinese exile Guo Wengui is using his online misinformation network to promote the use of unproven treatments for Covid.
  • Guo as recently as last week pushed the drugs ivermectin and artemisinin as Covid treatments.
  • He has also pushed conspiracy theories about vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna.

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Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui hold a news conference on November 20, 2018 in New York.Don Emmert | AFP | Getty Images

Guo Wengui, a wealthy businessman who fled China in 2014 and is linked to several high-profile far-right personalities in America, has been using his online network to promote unproven drugs to treat Covid-19 while spreading misinformation about the vaccines used to combat the disease.

As recently as Sunday on a livestream, Guo used his show on the online platform GTV to push ivermectin, which is used to treat parasitic infections, and malaria drug artemisinin as ways to battle the coronavirus.

Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor the World Health Organization have approved either drug for treating Covid. The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned against using ivermectin to treat and prevent Covid infections.

Guo on Thursday equated vaccinating children with murder. "Please do not take your children to get vaccinated anymore. It is not about getting a shot that simple but equivalent to murder," he said in a translated video post on social media platform Gettr. "Those who were vaccinated might face an unpredicted severe consequence."

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