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Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021

Is bathing in borax a good way to ‘detox’ the COVID-19 vaccine from your body?

Marlo Lee, Lead Stories

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What do you need to do if you want to remove the COVID-19 vaccine from yourself, for whatever reason?

Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says nothing, because it disintegrates from your body naturally "within 24 to 48 hours."

A doctor of osteopathy in Georgia has a different recipe: a special detox bath containing borax, baking soda, "Indian healing clay" and Epsom salt.

Schaffner commented that the suggested detox is, "totally bogus … silly, beyond absurd, [with] no scientific basis."

The osteopath is now trying to distance herself from it.

On the positive side, the professor calls it "useless, but not harmful."

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