At yesterday's White House briefing, President Trump speculated that coronavirus could be stopped with injections of disinfectant. Please please please please do not do that, manufacturers and federal agencies say. Don't drink it either. Please?
President Trump's speculations about coronavirus treatment during Thursday's briefing — about the possible healing effects of powerful lights and disinfectants in the lungs — have been roundly rejected by doctors, epidemiologists and manufacturers alike.
"I see the disinfectant — where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?" Trump floated, with a caveat that one would"have to use medical doctors." Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator of the coronavirus task force, was the first to answer the president, when he asked if"the heat and the light" was one avenue to explore:"Not as a treatment," she answered simply, during the briefing.
A wide array of medical, business and government professionals have elaborated on her straightforward response, but the basic message from all of them remains largely the same — and crystal clear: This is absolutelyHere is Dr. Birx's reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus.
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