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he president of the US stood at a podium with the White House seal emblazoned across the front and suggested that sunshine, household bleach and disinfectant might be a treatment for Covid-19. Newspapers around the world reported his remarks, but with a disclaimer that people should not be drinking or injecting themselves with cleaning products. The companies that manufacture the

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