Alex Jones also has a received an FDA/FTC joint warning about making false COVID-19 treatment claims for silver-based supplements and toothpastes he regularly sells during his "Infowars" program.

Jones, the agencies said in a 9 April warning, promoted products as COVID-19 treatments during his show and in a Youtube video. "This stuff kills the whole SARS corona family, at point blank range. Well of course it does, it kills every virus," the warning quotes Jones saying during a video posted on 10 March.

The agencies submitted their warning after the New York state attorney general on 12 March submitted a cease and desist order to Jones at his Austin, TX, headquarters to stop making bogus claims for "toothpaste, dietary supplements, creams, and several other products as treatments to prevent and cure the coronavirus."(Also see "State Agencies Sharpen Supplement Market Oversight During Pandemic, With Industry's Thanks" - HBW Insight, 30 March, 2020.)

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