Dallas-area chiropractor cited for selling fake coronavirus treatment, officials say
A Dallas-area chiropractor was cited for advertising fake treatments for coronavirus, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas obtained a temporary restraining order Thursday against Dr. Ray L. Nannis, a 48-year-old chiropractor at Optimum Wellness Solutions in Richardson.
Nannis was selling a homeopathic treatment of COVID-19 and posting videos of the supposed medicine on Facebook.
“It will help us avoid being sick or if you do get sick, it’s going to make it very, very, very minimal,” Nannis said in a video posted on April 1, according to the press release.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has not identified any immunizations, treatments, or cures for the novel coronavirus to date.
The temporary restraining order keeps Nannis from selling “worthless and potentially dangerous treatments” and required him to take down all videos advertising the product.
When a government agent called Nannis, he insisted the treatment would protect the user from coronavirus, or minimize symptoms if the user had the virus, and offered to sell it for $95 per dose.
“As a community, we cannot and will not allow individuals to peddle false hope during this pandemic in order to line their own pockets,” Cox said in the press release. “By promoting these unsubstantiated ‘treatments’ for COVID-19, this defendant substituted profits for the safety of the public. We are gratified the Court acted quickly to put a stop to this egregious conduct.”
