Cristina Cuomo, wife of CNN anchor Fredo Cuomo (and sister-in-law to Blue York Governor Homo Cuomo), is the founder and CEO of a wellness publication called The Purist.
So it is not exactly surprising that, following her own COVID-19 diagnosis, she would blog about her family’s coronavirus health and wellness regimens, which are replete with wellness buzzwords such as Ayurvedic diets and oxygenation and cleansing shakes and body charger devices .
According to Cuomo’s post, she takes oxygenated herbs like Echinacea Osha and two “medicinal florals (xanthium and magnolia)” per day as well as antivirals and Sinex to fight her sinus headaches and difficulty breathing.
Which, OK, so far pretty normal. She then proceeds to share that she enlists a doctor to administer at-home antiviral infusions at her Hamptons home: "She shows up in her full hazmat outfit and 3M mask. I got magnesium, NAC (a precursor to glutathione, said to be very helpful against COVID-19), vitamin C with lysine, proline, and B complex, folic acid, zinc, selenium, glutathione and caffeine (to combat the headache)".
She also notes that she adds “½ cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” and that she uses a “body charger,” a device that purportedly sends electrical frequencies throughout her body, to “oxygenate my blood and stimulate the healthy production of blood cells to fortify my immune system.”
She also said that she rented a PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field) machine from a health store in Water Mill, which purportedly use electromagnetic fields to stimulate self-healing. One study found that while PEMF “may offer some benefit in the treatment of delayed union and non‐union of long bone fractures, it is inconclusive and insufficient to inform current practice.”
She goes on to say that “for COVID-19, PEMF increases the speed with which your lungs and whole body can recover” and that it is “good to use for any ailment, at any time”.
PEMF devices are approved by the FDA for use as general wellness products, they are not approved as medical devices.
Very few Americans have access to Ayurvedic food, let alone PEMF machines.
In this world, and in this context, Cristina Cuomo sharing her coronavirus wellness regimen isn’t so much funny as it does reflect a very specific lack of understanding of her and her family’s privilege, and how starkly it contrasts with the lives of most of the other people fighting this illness.
It’s great that she can afford to have a doctor come to her home in a hazmat suit and 3M mask to administer a vitamin drip to help her fight her sinus infection.
But considering that most healthcare workers less than 100 miles from the Cuomos’ Hamptons home show up to work every day without having access to either of those things, it’s safe to say that this missive should’ve been saved to her drafts.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/cristina-chris-cuomo-coronavirus-covid-19-989089/