Trump spitballs coronavirus remedies in today's daily briefing: 'Inject disinfectant' or 'hit the body with tremendous light'
daily briefing, the president pitched his ideas on whether disinfectants or ultraviolet light could be used to cure coronavirus patients.
Trump directed some of his scientific genius at William Bryan, the secretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, who attended the briefing. “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And I think you said that it hasn’t been checked, and you’re going to test it,” Trump suggested to Bryan and other health officials in the room.
The president continued, “The disinfectant, where it knocks the [coronavirus] out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see, it gets in the lungs… so it’d be interesting to check that.”
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