“I’M JUST HERE TO PRESENT IDEAS,” President DONALD TRUMP said to WaPo’s PHIL RUCKER when Phil posited, quite accurately, that “people tuning in to [the White House] briefings, they want to get information and guidance and want to know what to do. They’re not looking for rumors.”
Earlier in Thursday’s briefing a presentation about how disinfectants kill germs including the coronavirus Donald Trump followed up thanking the presenter Bill Bryan, an undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department and said “Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside?” He said it would be “almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on the lungs.”
Doctors say that people should absolutely not use disinfectant in their lungs, or inhale or ingest it in any way. Bleach is a toxic chemical, and inhaling it could be damaging and dangerous.
“Inhaling chlorine bleach would be absolutely the worst thing for the lungs,” said John Balmes, a pulmonologist a Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. “The airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant.”
On Friday morning, the maker of Lysol and Dettol, Reckitt Benckiser Plc, issued a statement that “under no circumstance” should its disinfectant products be administered into the human body, through injection, ingestion or any other route.
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Still, there are those who blindly respond to every word Donald Trump speaks. Emergency rooms need to prepare for another category of visitors.
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