‘Don’t do this’: Anti-vaxxers who have to get COVID-19 shots are taking baths in borax

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There is no truth behind social media scuttlebutt that people can “detox” their body of the COVID-19 vaccine in a bath made with the household cleaner borax, say experts, including a physician with The University of Kansas Health System. Anti-vaxxers on social media have been recommending all manner of sketchy and debunked rituals to like-minded followers who begrudgingly followed vaccine mandates but now regret it, NBC News reported Friday. The report spotlighted TikTok user Carrie Madej, who shared the ingredients of a bath she said would “detox the vaxx.” Madej is an oste...