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EPA Threatens to Fight False Claims About Coronavirus Protection

The Environmental Protection Agency has threatened legal action against companies falsely claiming their products can protect against coronavirus. So reports The New York Times.

covid 4948866 640smallSanitizers and disinfectants falsely claiming to protect people from the virus are “flooding the market” and the EPA is weighing its options with respect to “unregistered” products. “While such products might not be harmful, the official said, they offer the public a dangerously false sense of protection that could deter social distancing and promote the spread of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus,” according to the article.

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