14 bogus claims about the coronavirus, including a fake coconut-oil cure and a false link to imported packages
Coconut oil is smooth and rich, but it also has no place in coronavirus treatment.
At least one health official in the Philippines recently suggested that coconut oil was "being looked into" to kill the new coronavirus, but that's not true in any serious way.
There are some studies, in mice, that have shown coconut oil might, just might, help kill bacteria that cause some Staphylococcus (staph) infections. But that doesn't mean the same will ever be true in people.
In fact, scientists don't even know if our bodies are capable of making the compound derived from a coconut's lauric acid that could provide such a bacteria-killing bonus. Besides, the novel coronavirus is not the same as staph, anyway.