See the full video and transcript of Trump suggesting Americans inject disinfectant as a coronavirus cure
Apr 24, 2020, 20:01 IST
- In his Thursday evening White House coronavirus task force press conference, Trump falsely claimed that bringing "light" inside the body or even injecting people's lungs with disinfectants could treat the novel coronavirus.
- Trump made the comments after Bill Bryan, the head of the science and technology directorate at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed some research about how COVID-19 reacts to sunlight.
- Injecting yourself with bleach or some other sort of disinfectant is not only incredibly dangerous and even life-threatening, but it is not an effective treatment or cure for COVID-19.
- In the wake of Trump's press conference, both doctors and manufacturers of cleaning products like Lysol and Dettol warned people not to ingest or inject the disinfectants they produce to combat coronavirus.
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