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by hhw 2125 days ago
In vitro means a petri dish. Bleach has antiviral properties in those conditions.

In vitro results are much less meaningful than in vivo results. It can be a useful early validation step, but is far from telling us anything about real world efficacy.

There's enough in vivo studies at this point that in vitro studies should no longer be part of the conversation.