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Peddlers of industrial bleach who urge Americans to drink the fluid as a “miracle cure” for cancer, HIV/Aids and other diseases have begun touting the product illegally as a treatment for the latest variants of Covid-19.
Chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent used in textile and paper manufacturing, is being compounded and sold out of a makeshift laboratory in Miami, Florida. The company, Oclo Nanotechnology Science, is playing on fears of the new strain of the coronavirus discovered in the UK, which is now spreading rapidly and widely through the US.
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Greetings from Washington, live blog readers.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, and Dr Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will testify before a House subcommittee this morning.
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