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Could alcohol (which can kill the virus outside the body) be used to cure Covid?

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Re: Could alcohol (which can kill the virus outside the body) be used to cure Covid?
« Reply #20 on: 28/03/2020 15:43:52 »
Quote from: scientizscht on 28/03/2020 15:19:11
Quote from: Bored chemist on 28/03/2020 10:39:52
Quote from: scientizscht on 28/03/2020 08:45:27
Quote from: chris on 27/03/2020 18:03:30
Quote from: Bored chemist on 23/03/2020 16:45:15
Alcohol kills the virus at concentrations above 60%.
It kills people at concentrations about 1% (there's some leeway on both figures, but the point stands).

Absolutely brilliant! Quoted this elsewhere several times already!

You don't have to drink it, maybe a vaporiser inhaler could work.
The purpose of lungs is to take material from the vapour phase and move it into the bloodstream.
They are very good at their job.
And that's what happens to inhaled alcohol.
There's no way you could get a  significant concentration in the lungs.

That's a  good thing.
Because, if you got an alcohol concentration in the tissues of the lungs that was remotely near that needed to "kill" the virus, it would kill the lungs.

The only reason we can get away with using alcohol to deactivate viruses on the skin is that the outer layer of the skin is already dead.

Alcohol inhalation - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_inhalation
Yes, as they point out, the alcohol is rapidly moved into the bloodstream - hence the recreational use.
They aren't trying to get anywhere like 60% in the lungs surface tissues when treating oedema, so that's also irrelevant.
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Re: Could alcohol (which can kill the virus outside the body) be used to cure Covid?
« Reply #21 on: 28/03/2020 17:17:38 »
Well it depends how fast a 60% alcohol can kill viruses.

You can deliver that and achieve this concentration in few seconds and the quantity passing into blood could be small.l to cause damage.
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Re: Could alcohol (which can kill the virus outside the body) be used to cure Covid?
« Reply #22 on: 28/03/2020 17:41:16 »
Quote from: scientizscht on 28/03/2020 17:17:38
Well it depends how fast a 60% alcohol can kill viruses.

At a guess, roughly as fast as it kills lung cells.

Do you understand that much of the virus is actually inside the lung cells?

Why are you still banging on about trying to use a virucide that has such a high human toxicity?
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