Coronavirus Myths You Need To Stop Believing

As the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has caused global upheaval, bogus claims about the illness have spread. Hopefully you don't believe any of the following falsehoods, but in case you or others do, spreading the truth is the best preventative medicine.

What bleach doesn't do is cure the coronavirus. Believe it or not, the internet has a troubling history of promoting bleach as a cure for whatever ails you. In May 2019, NBC reported that parents were force-feeding children bleach in hopes of curing their autism, prompting a pair of concerned moms to go undercover to infiltrate online groups promoting that myth.

People have also called the caustic a cure for cancer, hepatitis, and HIV, per ScienceAlert. The problem became so alarming that in 2019, the FDA issued a warning not to ingest bleach. Unfortunately, not everyone had heeded it because a similar myth has spread about coronavirus.

According to CBS, a far-right Youtuber with more than 120,000 Twitter followers touted a "miracle mineral solution" for the virus that entailed drinking bleach. But bleach is more likely to cure you of, well…being alive because it can cause, quote, "severe vomiting, severe diarrhea, life-threatening low blood pressure caused by dehydration, and acute liver failure." This isn't the sort of thing you want in your body.

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