Putting A Hair Dryer In Your Face Won’t Stop Coronavirus
Unless the advice comes from a doctor or a verified news source, it’s best to keep moving on when you see some social media post purporting to prevent, detect, or cure the coronavirus.
Drinking water won’t stop an infection, nor will drinking bleach. The latest measure, breathing in hot air, doesn’t work either.
In a video shared by so-called “futurologist” Dän Lee Dimke, sticking a hair dryer in your face or sitting in a sauna will kill the virus.
As Snopes points out, no credible medical professional would endorse this as it’s not scientifically possible. With no vaccine or therapeutic treatment out yet to deal with COVID-19, the CDC’s best recommendations are social distancing, plenty of handwashing, and not touching your face.
Has anyone seen the video that a hairdryer will kill the coronavirus? My grandmother just sent it to me via Facebook. I think it's irresponsible that false and potentially harmful info is being spread like this. Even scarier it's being shared by older folks on Facebook...
— Jacquelyn Faye (@JacquelynFaye) March 18, 2020
not a coworker tryna tell me that breathing in heat from a hairdryer will kill the coronavirus..
— tracy 🙊 (@tracypoop) March 18, 2020
It amazes me how people accept things they read on the internet as true. Spoke to someone who watched video online saying to blow a hot hairdryer up your nose, as the Coronavirus can't take the heat. As if the virus just sits in your nostrils instead of moving through the body 😕
— Darren Amos (@AmosIrishdaz) March 18, 2020
