Politics- 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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Here's the full transcript of Trump's comments:
Read the original article on Business Insider"So I asked Bill a question some of you are thinking of if you're into that world, which I find to be pretty interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said, that hasn't been checked but you're gonna test it. And then I said, supposing it brought the light inside the body, which you can either do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're gonna test that too, sounds interesting. And I then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that. So you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me, so we'll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it goes in one minute, that's pretty powerful."