Does Chlorine Dioxide Solution (CDS) remove COVID-19 vaccine's toxicity from the body? No, that's not true. The Thai Department of Disease Control confirmed that there is no reliable research showing that Chlorine Dioxide Solution or CDS is safe to drink and that it can kill all viruses as claimed. Furthermore, "COVID-19 vaccine's toxicity" is too generic as a definition: Different types of COVID-19 vaccines have been approved in different countries and there is no evidence of a generic "toxicity" in any of the vaccines listed by the WHO.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok on January 16, 2023. The caption, translated from Thai to English by Lead Stories staff, reads:
Rinse off Covid-19 vaccine's toxicity with CDS
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Fri Jan 26 18:23:27 2024 UTC)
Thailand's Department of Disease Control published a post on its X account (archived here) on October 31, 2023, to warn the public not to share any false information about chlorine dioxide's ability to "detoxify the body from the COVID-19 vaccine." In the caption, as translated by Lead Stories staff, it said that there is no academic research to support or prove that Chlorine Dioxide Solution is safe to drink and that it can kill all viruses.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a press release (archived here) on April 8, 2020, saying, "Despite previous warnings, the FDA is concerned that we are still seeing chlorine dioxide products being sold with misleading claims that they are safe and effective for the treatment of diseases, now including COVID-19. The sale of these products can jeopardize a person's health and delay proper medical treatment."
Chlorine dioxide is mostly used in the cleaning industry. According to webmd.com (archived here), it is used in very small amounts to kill bacteria, viruses, and fungi in public water treatment facilities. If it is used at high doses, it can damage red blood cells and the lining of the gastrointestinal tract.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (archived here) states that the COVID-19 vaccines approved in the USA are safe and effective and that the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the known and potential risks.
On January 17, 2024, Thailand's Department of Disease Control issued a statement (archived here) to confirm that the approved COVID-19 vaccines are safe and reduce the risk of the "long COVID" condition. According to this statement, more than 147 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Thailand since 2021, and only 5 cases of serious side effects from the vaccine were attributed directly to the vaccine.
