{"id":24397,"date":"2020-04-24T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/donald-trump-suggests-injecting-disinfectants-bringing-uv-light-inside-body-to-kill-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:54:04","slug":"donald-trump-suggests-injecting-disinfectants-bringing-uv-light-inside-body-to-kill-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24397","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump suggests injecting disinfectants, bringing UV light \u2018inside body\u2019 to kill coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The incredulous remarks of the U.S. President prompted sharp criticism from health experts who warned people against injecting or ingesting disinfectants, which are highly toxic.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump has suggested the possibility of studying injecting disinfectants into coronavirus (COVID-19) patients or bringing UV light \u201cinside\u201d their bodies to kill the deadly virus, drawing immediate flak from American health experts who urged people not to listen to such \u201cdangerous\u201d advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launching a new scientific study conducted by his department, Homeland Security for Science and Technology Under Secretary Bill Bryan on Thursday said the coronavirus dies at a much more rapid pace when exposed to sunlight and humidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe virus dies the quickest in direct sunlight. Isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds,\u201d he told White House reporters in the presence of President Trump at his daily briefing on the COVID-19 situation in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Bryan\u2019s remarks left Mr. Trump wondering if there was a possibility of injecting the chemical into a person infected with COVID-19 as a deterrent to the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute\u2026And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets inside the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that,\u201d the U.S. President told reporters at the press briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump also raised the possibility of using light to combat the deadly viral infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous (force), whether it\u2019s ultraviolet or just very powerful light – and I think you said that hasn\u2019t been checked but you\u2019re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you\u2019re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting,\u201d Mr. Trump said to Mr. Bryan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s incredulous remarks prompted sharp criticism from health experts who warned people against injecting or ingesting disinfectants, which are highly toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea\u2026This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous,\u201d Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Medical Center, told The Washington Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, who is also a member of the White House coronavirus task force, warned against ingesting any disinfectants to kill the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI certainly wouldn\u2019t recommend the internal ingestion of a disinfectant,\u201d Mr. Hahn was quoted as saying by the CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dara Kass, associate professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Centre, also asked people to refrain from doing such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlease don\u2019t drink bleach or isopropyl alcohol to remove #COVID19 from your saliva,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s horrific,\u201d Ms. Kass told the Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who consume such chemicals often die. Those who survive usually end up with feeding tubes, a result of their mouth and esophagus being eroded by the cleaning agents, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as experts from the medical community came forward to challenge Mr. Trump\u2019s latest remarks, Deborah Birx, one of the top American public health experts, did not respond to the comments about the light therapy or disinfectant injections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her lips pressed in a tight line, Ms. Brix, who serves as the response coordinator for the White House\u2019s coronavirus task force, was silently listening to Mr. Trump\u2019s comments from the sidelines, the Post reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The incredulous remarks of the U.S. President prompted sharp criticism from health experts who warned people against injecting or ingesting disinfectants, which are highly toxic. PTI President Donald Trump has suggested the possibility of studying injecting disinfectants into coronavirus (COVID-19) patients or bringing UV light \u201cinside\u201d their bodies to kill the deadly virus, drawing immediate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}