Se usó dióxido de cloro para tratar COVID en San José de Chiquitos Bolivia
“¿Es verdad que durante la pandemia de coronavirus en Bolivia, San José de Chiquitos la terapia con dióxido de cloro fue tomada como estrategia sanitaria para tratar la infección?”
Summary
Durante la pandemia de COVID‑19, el alcalde de San José de Chiquitos distribuyó dióxido de cloro a los centros médicos locales para tratar la infección, adoptándolo como una estrategia sanitaria en la localidad. Esta práctica fue confirmada por varios medios internacionales.
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- The Heavy Toll of COVID-19 in Bolivia: A Tale of Distrust, Despair, and Health Inequalities - PMC
The use of this potentially toxic chemical was even promoted by the government. Indeed, in July 2020, the Bolivian Senate approved a law that allowed the production, distribution, and use of chlorine dioxide for the prevention and treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...
- Debunking a Covid-19 ‘miracle cure’
Emeritus Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Biosciences) debunks claims by a group of Bolivian doctors that chlorine dioxide can help cure Covid-19, saying “Whatever actions it has at cellular level have nothing to do with whether or not it helps Covid…That needs trials in humans.”
- Bolivians try chlorine dioxide for COVID-19, despite health ministry warnings | Reuters
"I heard on the news that they were selling chlorine dioxide at the pharmacy. Acquaintances of mine took it, one for prevention and one for healing. It is doing them good," said Eric Ocanha, outside of a pharmacy.
- With Officials’ Backing, Dubious Virus Remedies Surge in Latin America - The New York Times
The prison chief, Ludwin Miranda, said that all the participants had signed consent forms. In San José de Chiquitos, an eastern Bolivian town of 30,000, the mayor distributed chlorine dioxide to local medical centers to treat the virus.
- Lawmakers push toxic disinfectant as Covid-19 treatment in Bolivia, against Health Ministry’s warnings | CNN
Chlorine dioxide is mostly used to disinfect drinking water supplies and has never been legitimately used or sold for use in or on the human body. The Bolivian Health Ministry says it is not an effective coronavirus treatment, and has issued ...
- Desperate Bolivians seek out toxic bleach falsely touted as Covid-19 cure | Bolivia | The Guardian
Last week, the Senate approved a bill authorizing the emergency “manufacture, marketing, supply and use of chlorine dioxide solution for the prevention and treatment of coronavirus”. Bolivia in danger of squandering its head start over ...
- South America's bitter divide over a toxic 'Covid cure'
Andreas Kalcker, one of its biggest promoters, has been invited to talk about it by well-meaning journalists, legislators and academics not only in Peru, but also in neighbouring countries such as Colombia and Bolivia. ... How did a substance the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) says "is the same as drinking bleach" trigger such a movement in Latin America? Social media had something to do with it, but also psychological traits and marketing techniques that have been around for a long time. ... Chlorine dioxide was not the only fake cure to gain popularity as the world scrambled for ways to combat the pandemic.
- Coronavirus: Fake cures in Latin America’s deadly outbreak
But the post is fake, and officially denied by the Bolivian government. Chlorine dioxide is a bleaching agent found in a substance claiming to cure a range of illnesses often advertised as "miracle mineral supplement", or MMS.
- In Bolivian city, people buy fake - and toxic - virus cure - The Washington Post
Long lines form every morning in one of the Bolivian cities hardest hit by the pandemic as desperate people wait to buy small plastic bottles of chlorine dioxide, a toxic bleaching agent that has been falsely touted as a cure for the coronavirus
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