Joe Rogan on health: what the evidence says · JRE #1490
SUBJECT: HEALTH
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I read they did like a survey of a couple thousand people and somewhere in the range of like 4% of people admitted to gargling and or washing stuff with bleach.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Rogan referenced a CDC report on unsafe cleaning practices adopted to prevent COVID-19, describing it as a survey of "a couple thousand people" that found roughly 4% admitted to gargling or washing with bleach. The actual CDC study, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in June 2020, surveyed 502 U.S. adults, not a couple thousand. The 4% figure itself is accurate: the survey found 4% of respondents reported drinking or gargling diluted bleach solutions with the intent of preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, part of a broader finding that 39% engaged in at least one non-recommended high-risk practice, such as applying bleach to food, applying cleaning products to skin, or inhaling disinfectant vapors. The claim is largely accurate on the key statistic but overstates the survey's sample size by roughly four to fivefold.