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This headline is somewhat misleading; just changing to the wording of "cell cultures" instead of "cells" would make the stage that this work is in more clear.
by johnmyleswhite 7y ago
This headline is somewhat misleading; just changing to the wording of "cell cultures" instead of "cells" would make the stage that this work is in more clear.
- cwojno 7y agoIt's absolutely misleading and dangerous.
- floatingatoll 7y agoEmailing the mods with the footer Contact link will help them realize and correct that.
- smt88 7y agoThis is true in the sense that all misleading medical information about over-the-counter drugs is dangerous. It's also true because we already know of at least one person who died self-dosing with an unproven Covid-19 "cure".
- amluto 7y agoHypochlorous acid (bleach) destroys SARS-CoV-2 in cell culture, too. So do ethanol and soap.
- yk 7y agoA revolver destroys the virus in-vivo. (At least vivo at the beginning of the study.)
- amluto 7y agoThat xkcd comic confuses me. Does a revolver really kill pathogens or does it just scatter them? A flamethrower, on the other hand...
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- Y3Jdg4 7y agoThis sort of anti-hype is not useful. I've seen a number of people say such things recently, so I figure it might be worth correcting, sarcasm notwithstanding. First, yes, ingesting large amounts of bleach would likely be hazardous to one's health. The article that was linked suggests that there is a drug which is FDA approved, and used in a therapeutic context today, which may also be effective at least in vitro against the new SARS virus. It's not "haha bleach," or aggressive pulverizing, or any other dramatic form of cell death you can easily imagine. It's a drug [that was linked]. Second, bleach actually _is_ used in vivo. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402722/
- gonational 7y agoDo you have a citation?
- dang 7y agoChanged now. Thanks!