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Key Words: Trump suggests disinfectant as treatment for coronavirus ‘by injection inside or almost a cleaning.’ Doctors call the idea ‘dangerous’

‘Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that,’ the president told his daily press briefing. Read More...

President Trump floated the idea of using ultraviolet light inside the body or disinfectant by “injection” as a treatment for coronavirus at his press briefing, a suggestion doctors called “dangerous.”

“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. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that,” he said.

“So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body,” the president said Thursday.

‘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.’

Vin Gupta, a global-health policy expert, told NBC News CMCSA, +1.00% : “This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible and it’s dangerous. It’s a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves.”

CNN T, +0.10% correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta said, “I think everybody would know that would be dangerous and counterproductive, and not at all moving us in the right direction.”

Gupta said it’s not a wise idea to spend time researching. “He also said it needs to be studied,” he told the cable network. “Actually, it doesn’t. I mean, we know the answer to this one. There’s a lot of things out there we don’t know the answers to and we need to investigate.”

Trump refused to take a question from a CNN reporter and called CNN “fake new. He’s warned that efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, are spiraling the U.S. economy into another Great Recession.

The impact has already sent the Dow Jones Industrial Index DJIA, +0.16% ricocheting wildly in recent weeks, with shares plummeting before recovering and then disappointing again. Trump said he will decide when to reopen the economy and said his “authority is total.”

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than three decades and one of the leading experts in the U.S. on infectious diseases, has said a vaccine will take at least 12 to 18 months, and said the virus will decide the timeline of reopening.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appealed to the federal government for more testing in New York, the epicenter of the virus, but he also said that there were signs of flattening the curve of new cases, helped by wearing masks and gloves.

Cuomo said reopening is both an economic question and a public health question, and said he won’t choose between lives and dollars. He said the “valve” of economic activity must be slowly turned on, when it happens, and said it will happen at different times across the state.

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