Sixty clinics served by 38 businesses are selling stem cell treatments to patients they claim cure Long Covid symptoms but have not been approved by the FDA.
Dozens of health clinics across the country are selling unauthorized stem cell treatments purported to prevent and treat the side effects of COVID-19.Thirty-eight businesses serving around 60 clinics in the United States, Mexico, and elsewhere are providing stem cell treatments and exosome therapies, most of which also claim to treat Long Covid, according to a new paper in the journal Stem Cell Reports.
'The patients being targeted by such marketing claims are particularly vulnerable,' Turner said. 'They're suffering, and in some cases, they've been suffering for a long time, making them highly susceptible to misleading marketing representations and persuasive marketing pitches.
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