Compared to the same time window last year, there were a total of 13 exposure calls, with 2 involving bleach, but none involving Lysol-type products. Ten involved bleach, 9 were about Lysol, and 11 others regarding other household cleaners. Data from the New York Poison Center center revealed that in the 18 hours after Trump’s comments, the Poison Center received 30 exposure calls about disinfectants. The ensuing expression on Birx’s face was akin to a parent trying to stay patient with a child as they spout complete nonsense.Meanwhile, calls to New York City’s Poison Control Center for exposure to specific household cleaners and disinfectants increased more than twofold after the President’s comments on Thursday, WNBC New York reported today. I’m not a doctor, but I’m, like, a person who has a good you know what.” Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, “I would like you to speak to the medical doctors to see if there’s any way that you can apply light and heat to cure. The man’s wife told NBC that she took the drug with her husband because they were thinking, “Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?”Īt another point during Thursday’s briefing, Trump told Dr. For instance, during the weeks in which Trump was pushing hydroxychloroquine at every opportunity, an Arizona man died after he tried to self-medicate with chloroquine phosphate. There are indications that people do take Trump more seriously than they should. "I'm the president and you're fake news" - Trump to after he asks him if it's responsible to make all sorts of wacky and unproven suggestions about possible coronavirus treatments /8ag4izDrGj- Aaron Rupar April 23, 2020
“I’m the president and you’re fake news,” Trump said, adding that his comments “are just a suggestion.” He then attacked Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker after Rucker advised him, “People tuning into these briefings - they want to get information and guidance and want to know what to do. While there is still a lot we don’t about the coronavirus, it is highly unlikely that injecting humans with disinfectants will turn out to be a safe or effective treatment.īut if his ill-fated push for hydroxychloroquine wasn’t already proof, Trump made it abundantly clear during Thursday’s briefing that he has no qualms about making huge leaps of faith to sell some hope.Īt the same time that his own government is urging people to stay in their homes to slow the spread of Covid-19, Trump seized upon DHS’s preliminary finding that sunlight helps kill the virus and said, “I think a lot of people are gonna go outside all of the sudden.”
It gets in the lungs" - Trump seems to suggests that injecting disinfectant inside people could be a treatment for the coronavirus /amis9Rphsm- Aaron Rupar April 23, 2020 "The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.” Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. “And then I see 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. And I think you said you’re gonna test that,” Trump said, addressing Bryan.
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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. “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. Deborah Birx.Īt the briefing, William Bryan, undersecretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), discussed preliminary government research indicating that “heat and humidity suppress Covid-19” and “commonly available disinfectants work to kill the virus.”Īfter Bryan’s presentation, Trump took to the podium and made a deeply bizarre inference. With his hype for hydroxychloroquine in the rearview mirror, President Donald Trump used Thursday’s White House press briefing to muse about whether disinfectants and sunlight might be the new miracle coronavirus cures of the moment - much to the bewilderment of Dr.
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