UV light and disinfectant injections could treat COVID-19 patients, another Trump’s idea [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• During a virus briefing on Thursday, President Donald Trump proposed the idea of applying ultraviolet light and injection of disinfectant in a COVID-19 patient’s body as a way of treating the virus.
• Trump based his theories from the report of William Bryan, the scientist who presented a study that indicates the virus could be killed on surfaces and in aerosols by heat, humidity, sunlight and disinfectants. However, Bryan negated the president’s suggestion, saying that his laboratory won’t pursue the idea.
• Dismayed physicians in the briefing have turned to Twitter to warn the patients on the use of usual cleaning products to counter the virus.

In a Thursday coronavirus briefing, President Donald Trump suggested that COVID-19 patients might be treated through the application of ultraviolet light and injection of disinfectant.

William Bryan, a scientist at the Department of Homeland Security, presented a research that indicates the virus could be killed on surfaces and in aerosols by heat, humidity, sunlight, and disinfectants — specifically bleach and isopropyl alcohol.

Trump’s theoretical assumptions were based on Bryan’s study, though none from his medical team at the briefing proposed that these were valid treatments for virus patients.

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but we’re going to test it… And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or some other way,” Trump said.

Trump then went on to speculate about the probability of using disinfectants as a cure while Bryan looked on uncomfortably.

“And then I see the 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? Because you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on the lungs,” Trump continued.

Bryan was asked if the president’s suggestions made sense, he said that his laboratory was not pursuing those ideas.

Normal body temperature is 98.6 while the temperatures which Bryan’s laboratory had been studying were in the range of 70 to 95 degrees.

Trump hyped Bryan’s findings as he had been hoping the virus would “disappear” as springtime temperatures began to rise in the country. He said he was not aware that hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir — the drugs he has supported despite the absence of clinical tests — were ineffective.

Trump then dialed back expectations when pressed by the media if Bryan’s findings were enough to ensure that re-opening the country would be safe in the coming weeks.

During the briefing, dismayed doctors turned to Twitter to warn patients on the use of usual cleaning products to counter the virus.

Source: AOL.com