Host of Virus-Spreading Tech Conference Peddles Unproven Treatment to Attendees
He apologized after two-dozen participants came down with Covid-19. He also pitched them injections through his company.
Peter Diamandis was sorry he helped spread the coronavirus with a conference he hosted this year, and he wanted to make amends. An entrepreneur with a sprawling network of technology and biotech businesses, Diamandis arranged a follow-up event—this time, virtual—to offer health information to some of the two-dozen participants who were infected in January. On that video call, he pitched unproven treatments for Covid-19 offered by one of his companies.
Wearing a jacket emblazoned with his conference logo and a baseball cap promoting one of his other ventures, Diamandis brought on a doctor who described a regimen of injecting small proteins known as peptides to help fight the virus. Diamandis referenced the supposed treatment three times in the webinar and referred viewers to his company Fountain Life, which he said could help them order the vials. “Fountain has a turnkey peptide program,” Diamandis said.