Swimming pool disinfectant, other dubious virus remedies surge in Latin America
María Silvia Trigo, Anatoly Kurmanaev and José María León Cabrera, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 24 11:56 AM
In Cochabamba, high in the Bolivian Andes, people line up daily outside pharmacies on the central plaza, eager to buy the scarce elixir they hope will ward off COVID-19: chlorine dioxide, a kind of bleach used to disinfect swimming pools and floors. Experts said drinking it is pointless at best and hazardous at worst.
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