Cease-and-Desist

This is what happens when you air pay-for-play programs.

WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids) reported that the Michigan Attorney General’s Office is telling a local company weight loss business to stop saying that its injections can help keep people from getting COVID-19.

It seems that the owner of the business Skin Envy, Stephanie Davison made claims that sermorelin injections, which are meant to speed up the metabolism, could also strengthen the immune system and stop someone from getting COVID-19.

The problem is, she made these claims on WOOD’s pay-for-play show EightWest. “(It) boosts the immune system, which is very imperative,” Davison said on the show, adding “I mean, again, I didn’t, I, almost all of my friends got Covid-19. I never, I never did. So, I’m thankful and now I’ve been vaccinated so I will not get it ever now. So I’m so grateful and I’ve had people tell me in the medical field that it is probably due to the ipamorelin/sermorelin.”

There is no evidence to show that’s true, experts say. The Attorney General’s Office also noted that neither Davison nor Skin Envy’s website mentioned possible side effects of the injections.

The AG sent Davison and Skin Envy a cease-and-desist letter, saying the business is misrepresenting its product and not providing customers with all the relevant facts.

The station reported on the letter but did not apologize for their role in spreading the misinformation and did best to distance the pay-for-play from the station’s news department.

I think the news department should have tried to get WOOD’s General Manager on camera and ask about the station’s role in this?

Just saying….

Here is the story that WOOD did on the matter.