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Um, oh, okay, so I tell her that he has good my team and then she says make him drink the broth.

So what you're hearing right now is this guy I talked to named Mark. He lives in New York and he's

reading off a few text messages he got from a relative of his when Mark and his boyfriend both got

breakthrough infections of COVID-19 this summer. Yada Yada does he take a probiotic?

And I say, I said no, like we don't take probiotic or anything.

And then she says he should do a heavy metal detox as well. It will help. There are heavy metals in those shots.

She goes, um, does he take magnesium? Did he do the Epsom salt bath? He needs to be on a probiotic.

So do you, unless you guys eat the proper amount of fermented food?

Okay, wait, so sorry.

Probiotics, heavy metals, Epsom, like what is going on here? This sounds kind of out there.

So Mark already knew before he had this conversation with this relative that this particular

relative was really into holistic health and kind of natural wellness, sort of things.

But still I think the degree to which she objected to the vaccines themselves in this particular

way of treating or preventing COVID, I think that really surprised him.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. I'm Emma Chalkoff in for

Marching Powers and it's Friday, October 1st. Today we talk to a reporter, Ashley Federer's

Malway, about how some of the most insidious misinformation about COVID and the vaccines

is being spread by wellness influencers.

Mark's relative is one of a lot of people in America and elsewhere who during the pandemic have

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