China is telling people to stop eating canned peaches as a Covid remedy | Business Insider

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As a newly reopened China scrambles to calm a medicine-buying frenzy, the country has found itself trying to curb the hoarding of another good: canned peaches.

, the country has found itself trying to curb the hoarding of another good: canned peaches.

Chinese shoppers, incorrectly believing that peaches can help treat the coronavirus, are buying up so much of the canned fruit that online sales platforms have run out of stock,State media is rushing to draw the line between comfort food and medical treatment. "Canned yellow peaches are not really a special medicine for fever and cough. It is more like a sweet 'placebo' like the cake you eat or the milk tea you drink when you are stressed," Gao Xiaoling, a hospital deputy director in Shaanxi, told

 

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