Due to the coronavirus, there's a shortage of liquid oxygen at local Tampa hospitals, so Tampa Bay Water is using bleach to treat tap water.
If your tap water tastes and smells strange, you can blame it on the coronavirus pandemic. Tampa Bay's water supplier is using bleach to disinfect water to save liquid oxygen for hospitals facing a shortage.
Tampa Bay hospitals are receiving twice as many COVID-19 patients as they did during the peak of last year's pandemic. As a result, the hospitals are running low on liquid oxygen needed for critically ill patients on respirators.
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