Hamblin: Does vitamin D help fight COVID-19?īefore I called her, Keane hadn’t realized that in April, a federal court in Utah shut down My Doctor Suggests for allegedly fraudulently promoting their colloidal-silver products as a treatment for COVID-19. When she later read an (erroneous) online claim that silver can kill the coronavirus as it enters the mouth, she let her 5-year-old son eat the rest of the lozenges-he liked their sweet taste. She wrote up her results, such as they were, in a blog post. While they didn’t seem to do much, they didn’t make anything worse, either. She tried all the products and sipped the metallic-tasting “silver solution” daily. Keane thought the silver might clear up some white splotches that had spread across her skin. She remembers him saying it would be safe to drink up to a bottle a day. Keane spoke with Doug Godkin, the vice president of My Doctor Suggests, who she says assured her that taking the silver was as harmless as taking a vitamin, and that the solution could help with all kinds of ailments. A company called My Doctor Suggests was sending out free samples of its products, including colloidal-silver solution, lozenges, lotion, and soap, to bloggers who might be willing to review the products online. Last year, Candy Keane, a 44-year-old lifestyle blogger in Florida, heard about colloidal silver-silver particles suspended in liquid-from a mom’s group she’s part of. To the silver salesmen, moms must have seemed like an ideal demographic.
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