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+    - tea
+date: '2020-12-08 09:46:35'
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+My mother-in-law shared this link on the family LINE chat (日本語):
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+https://www.sankei.com/west/news/201127/wst2011270045-n1.html
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+The gist: Some experiments were carried out at Nara prefectural medical university (probably not the correct name in English) in which over-the-counter bottled tea were introduced to laboratory samples of covid-19.  
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+After 1 minute 99% of viral activity was ceased and after 10 minutes 99.9% though effectiveness apparently varied between tea type, black tea being the most effective.
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+This hasn't yet been tested in humans, however the professor mentioned in the article (Yano, I think), states that the catechins* within tea are already known to be effective in slowing (?) the flu virus and as such are expected to be somewhat effective against covid-19.
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+* Catechins are "a type of natural phenola and antioxidant" (wikipedia)
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+I've no idea whether or not this is effective, or whether the introduction of cow juice impacts any apparent effectiveness but I found it interesting nonetheless.
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+My in-laws are tea farmers.
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