Perhaps the White House coronavirus task force briefings should stop, unless a scientist, doctor or public health official has information to convey. What we now have is somewhere between misinformation and a public health threat.
We’re to the point that when Donald Trump says something from the podium, White House correspondents are immediately injecting, “please don’t try this at home.”
On Thursday, Trump made reference to ultraviolet light as a treatment for the virus as well as disinfectants. From The Washington Post:
“Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way,” Trump said to Bill Bryan, the undersecretary for science and technology at the Homeland Security Department during the evening White House briefing. He urged him to test it.
“The president then mused that perhaps bleach or another disinfectant can also be injected into the body to kill the virus.
“Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number,” the president said.
“He encouraged Bryan to test that theory too, but noted the government should involve medical doctors on that one.“