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   Thomson Reuters · Posted: Apr 24, 2020   
      
      
   Reaction was swift and condemning: 'Trump's briefings are actively endangering   
   the public's health'   
      
   'Under no circumstances': Health experts reject Trump's suggestion to inject   
   disinfectant to kill COVID-19   
      
      
   Doctors and health experts urged people not to inject disinfectant on Friday   
   after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested scientists should investigate   
   whether putting the cleaning agent into the body could be a way to combat   
   COVID-19.   
      
   "[This is an] absolutely dangerous, crazy suggestion," said Paul Hunter, a   
   professor of medicine at Britain's University of East Anglia.   
      
   "You may not die of COVID-19 after injecting disinfectant, but only because   
   you may already be dead from the injection."   
      
   Trump said at his daily media briefing on Thursday that scientists should   
   explore whether putting light or disinfectant into the bodies of people   
   infected with the new coronavirus might help them clear the disease.   
      
   "Is there a way we can do something like that by injection, inside, or almost   
   a cleaning?" he said. "It would be interesting to check that."   
      
   Trump looked over at Dr. Deborah Birx while making the comments. The   
   co-ordinator of one of the White House's coronavirus task forces appeared   
   uncomfortable and caught off guard.   
      
   The White House said on Friday that Trump had been taken out of context and   
   had urged people to seek coronavirus treatment only after conferring with   
   their doctors.   
      
   White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement: "President   
   Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should consult with medical doctors   
   regarding coronavirus treatment, a point that he emphasized again during   
   yesterday's briefing."   
      
   The emailed statement did not directly mention cleaners or ultraviolet (UV)   
   light as coronavirus treatments, but its subject was "White House on   
   disinfectant."   
      
   Trump himself offered a different explanation from the White House while   
   signing the latest coronavirus relief bill, stating he was being sarcastic.   
      
   "I was asking a sarcastic — a very sarcastic question — to the reporters   
   in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it."   
      
   'Under no circumstance': Lysol   
      
   Reckitt Benckiser, which manufacturers household disinfectants Dettol and   
   Lysol, issued a statement on Friday.   
      
   "Under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into   
   the human body [through injection, ingestion or any other route]," the company   
   said.   
      
   Trump's comments were also met with alarm by the medical experts that the U.S.   
   news networks employ as contributors.   
      
   "I just don't think we should be normalizing that in any way, shape or form,"   
   said Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN.   
      
   In the same segment, Dr. Leana Wen said the experts serving in the   
   administration are engaged in a difficult balancing act of needing to tell the   
   truth "while at the same time not upsetting the president so much that they   
   can't be credible in his eyes."   
      
   The comments were also pounced on by former vice-president Joe Biden, the   
   presumptive Democratic nominee for president in the November election.   
      
   "UV light? Injecting disinfectant?," said Biden.  "Here's an idea, Mr.   
   President: more tests.  Now.  And protective equipment for actual medical   
   professionals."   
      
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