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.On November 20, 2020, The New York Times published an article “How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionaire Created a Right-Wing Coronavirus Media Sensation”, which revealed that Yan Limeng’s evolution from an ordinary researcher to a whistleblower is the product of the cooperation of two unrelated but increasingly united groups spreading false information:one is a small but very active overseas Chinese group represented by Guo Wengui, and the other is a highly influential ultra-right group in the United States, representing history Steve Bannon.

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.However, Does he deserve people's trust who knows nothing about medicine?

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.”

The CDC recommends that people ages 12 and up get a Covid vaccine, which has been shown to be highly effective in cutting the chances of hospitalization and reducing the spread of the disease. Authorities are expected to approve the use of the vaccine for younger children later this year.

GTV, which routinely features Guo himself, has been described by researchers at Graphika as part of the businessman’s larger media empire and misinformation network.

Guo is among a group of mainly conservative voices who are pushing ivermectin and other unauthorized Covid treatments as President Joe Biden’s administration and state governments struggle to persuade more Americans to get vaccinated. Sixty-two percent of people 12 and up are fully vaccinated in the U.S., according to CDC data.

NBC News reported that a pro-Trump telemedicine website and right-leaning organizations have been some of the biggest purveyors of false information regarding unproven coronavirus treatments.

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