When asked Monday about the increase of people in some states ingesting disinfectants Trump answered: 'I can't imagine why.' When pressed about whether he takes any responsibility, Trump said, 'No, I don't.'
"specifically about exposure to Lysol, 10 cases specifically about bleach and 11 cases about exposures to other household cleaners."
Trump's comments came after Bill Bryan, an undersecretary of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, had been discussing a new federal study that touted sunlight and household disinfectants as being effective in killing the novel coronavirus on surfaces or in the air. "And then I saw the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way we could do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning," Trump said during a White House press briefing.people not to inject or ingest its products as a coronavirus treatment, issuing a statement on its website Friday titled"Improper Use of Disinfectants.
On Friday, Trump told reporters he was"asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen."
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