How conspiracy theorists are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to sell toxic bleach as a miracle cure

• Proponents of MMS, a toxic bleach falsely hailed as a miracle cure, are exploiting fears of the coronavirus pandemic to sell the substance to a large new audience. 
• In Bolivia, lawmakers on Tuesday voted to legalize the dangerous substance as a treatment for COVID-19. 
• On social media proponents of the substance have seized on the coronavirus pandemic to push the substance as a preventative and cure in the absence of any proven remedies. 
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Last year a controversial movement that advocates a toxic bleach — chlorine dioxide — as a miracle cure was finding its ability to promote the substance being cut off. 

After years of inaction, social media platforms were moving to remove and ban people advocating for and selling the substance, which many call "Miracle Mineral Solution."

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• The CDC held off publishing new guidelines for school reopenings after attacks from the White House
• Bolivia's senate approved 'miracle mineral solution' — a toxic bleach with no medical use — as a treatment for COVID-19
• After a Tennessee church became a superspreading hot spot, its pastor says he should have made everyone wear masks

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