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United States President Donald Trump listens to Vice President Mike Pence during the daily briefing on the Coronavirus Task Force at the White House in Washington, USA. USA (Reuters)
Trump’s strange suggestion came after learning of the effects of sunlight and household disinfectants on the new coronavirus.
- News18.com Washington
- Last update: April 24, 2020, 9:33 a.m. IST
Health experts in the United States are recovering from the shock they received from the last press conference of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, where he suggested the possibility of a “injection” of disinfectant in a person infected with the coronavirus as a deterrent to illness on Thursday.
Trump’s strange suggestion came after learning of the effects of sunlight and household disinfectants on the new coronavirus.
Bill Bryan, who heads the science and technology division of the Department of Homeland Security, made a presentation on research his team has conducted that shows that warmer, wetter temperatures cut half the life of the coronavirus. Bryan said: “The virus dies faster in sunlight.”
As a result of Bryan’s research, Trump wondered if people could bring light “inside the body,” and suggested that experts should find a way to inject light and disinfectants into human bodies to kill the virus.
“Suppose we hit the body with tremendous light, either ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said it hadn’t been verified due to testing and then I said, assuming you brought the light into the body, what can you done through the skin or otherwise, and I think you said you’re going to try that too, “Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing.
“I see the disinfectant that removes it in a minute, a minute. And is there any way we can do something like that by injecting it into the interior or almost cleaning it? lungs, so it would be interesting to verify that, “added POTUS, even though it did not specify the type of disinfectant to justify its claim.
Trump, who has always searched for hopeful news about virus containment, was asked if it was dangerous to make people think they would be safe by going out in the heat, considering that many people have died in Florida.
“I hope people enjoy the sun. And if it does have an impact, that’s great, “Trump replied, adding:” It’s just a suggestion from a brilliant lab of a very, very smart man, perhaps brilliant. ”
“I’m here to come up with ideas, because we want ideas to get rid of this. And if the heat is good, and if the sunlight is good, that’s a great thing as far as I’m concerned,” the president said.
Furthermore, Trump said the virus “has a tremendous amount in the lungs, so it would be interesting to verify that.”
However, Bryan said there was no consideration for that.
The president often spoke about the prospects for new therapies and offered optimistic timelines for the development of a vaccine.
Medical professionals quickly denounced President Trump’s “inadequate health messages.”
“Everything this scientist talked about about homeland security was basically incoherent, pointless, really not supported by evidence and really quite contrary to a lot of things we know about some of the things he said,” said director Irwin Redlener. from the Columbia University Disaster Preparedness Center, told the MSNBC Network.
Redlener also dismissed Bryan’s presentation saying, “Firstly, people do have Covid, they have been receiving Covid in hot climates, including New Orleans, but also other countries that have warm weather right now. Second, this The problem with UV light is hypothetical, but it can also be very damaging, and we don’t hear anything like a balanced discussion about what the evidence is for and against UV light, but it’s certainly not ready for primetime. ”
He added: “The fact that the President really asked someone about what it sounded like injecting disinfectants or isopropyl alcohol into the human body was kind of a shock.”
