We Asked a Registered Nurse How to Keep Healthy & Calm During a Pandemic

"Yes!" says Buchholtz-Rosenfield, "Crazy talk about drinking fluids to move the virus from your mouth to your stomach to kill it? WOW." (Though you should still be drinking those fluids!)

Buchholtz-Rosenfield also says there's also little real world validity to the whole "holding your breath for 20 seconds test." As she puts it, "If those actually worked, we wouldn't be treating as many cases and would just be telling people to drink water and hold their breath."

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