The president suggested looking into whether injections of disinfectant and 'very powerful light' could treat the COVID-19 infection.
Experts, including those within his own administration, immediately warned against taking such a path.
“And then 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,” Trump said. “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.”
Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, first defended Trump’s “natural question” about the use of light to treat the disease.“I certainly wouldn’t recommend the internal ingestion of a disinfectant,”
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