US President Donald Trump once again contradicted medical advice last Thursday (23) by suggesting that disinfectant injections could serve as a treatment for Covid-19. Obviously this caused controversy.
How was that pronouncement? Check it out in full below:
“And then I see the disinfectant, which knocks out [the coronavirus] in a minute. One minute! And is there a way for us to do something, an injection inside or almost a cleaning?
He continued: because, you see, it goes into the lungs and it does a tremendous job on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that out. So it will have to be seen with the doctors, but it sounds interesting to me.” Doctors were stunned.
Trum also alluded to alleged treatments for the coronavirus
This time it was with ultraviolet radiation, again without scientific corroboration. “Maybe it's possible, maybe it's not. I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person who has a good you know what," he said.
Medical officials around the world reacted to Trump's statement with outrage. "I would certainly not recommend ingesting disinfectant internally," Stephen Hahn, an FDA official, told CNN.
Trump has promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria and other diseases, but there are not enough studies to confirm its effectiveness against the new coronavirus - this week, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid, its acronym in English) ), from the USA, contraindicated the use of the drug to treat Covid-19.
Trump made clarifications to avoid further confusion.
“I sarcastically asked journalists a question,” declared the US President this Friday, when asked about his comments about the effectiveness of disinfectants to combat the covid-19 pandemic.
Source: Newspaper
