QAnon Influencers Are Encouraging Followers to Drink Bleach to Avoid Coronavirus

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QAnon Influencers Are Encouraging Followers to Drink Bleach to Avoid Coronavirus
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Side effects of consuming the substance include severe vomiting and diarrhea, a potentially deadly drop in blood pressure, and acute liver failure. Benefits do not include the prevention of coronavirus or cancer.

Don’t confuse the French bleach brand La Croix with its American counterpart. Photo: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images Proponents of the QAnon conspiracy, which alleges that the Russia investigation was a front so President Trump could expose rampant pedophilia in the Democratic Establishment and prevent a deep-state coup, generally aren’t great interpreters of the news — unless they are — making this older demographic somewhat vulnerable to scamming.

Adherents of some fringe groups consider the liquid solution of sodium chlorite to be a panacea for autism, hepatitis, the flu, cancer, and HIV. The Food and Drug Administration, however, considers this commercially available product to be the “same as drinking bleach” because of the common practice of adding lemon juice or another citric acid to make it a beverage. “When the acid is added,” the FDA explains, “the mixture becomes chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent.

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