Perhaps encouraged by his ownership stake in its distributors, Dr. Oz backed an untested COVID treatment
The well-known snake-oil salesman from New Jersey, Dr. Mehmet Oz, leaned into anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment before any studies proved it was not helpful. Oz and his wife own stakes in several companies involved in the manufacture and distribution of the drug, however, these companies all make lots of drugs, which may just be coincidental as Oz seemingly enjoys promoting things that do not work. — Read the rest