Comment by johnmyleswhite
5 years 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.
5 years 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.
It's absolutely misleading and dangerous.
This 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".
Hypochlorous acid (bleach) destroys SARS-CoV-2 in cell culture, too. So do ethanol and soap.
This 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/
A revolver destroys the virus in-vivo. (At least vivo at the beginning of the study.)
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Emailing the mods with the footer Contact link will help them realize and correct that.
Do you have a citation?
Changed now. Thanks!