Birx, and suggested them as a course of study, as opposed to a recommendation of a course of action for the American public.īut they acknowledged that Mr. They noted that the president had later directed the same comments to Dr. Trump had been taken out of context, even as they acknowledged that his comments were problematic. Several White House officials said they shared the view that Mr. said the drugs should be used only in clinical trials or hospitals where patients can be closely monitored for heart problems. Also Friday, the Food and Drug Administration warned that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, two drugs that the president has repeatedly recommended in treating the coronavirus, can cause dangerous abnormalities in heart rhythm in coronavirus patients and has resulted in some deaths. Trump’s remarks caused an immediate uproar, and the White House spent much of Friday trying to walk them back. Birx said, adding, “I haven’t seen heat or light -” before the president cut her off. Trump asked her if she knew about “the heat and the light” as a potential cure. Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, was sitting to the side in the White House briefing room, blinking hard and looking at the floor as he spoke. So it would be interesting to check that.”ĭr. “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 it does a tremendous number on the lungs. Bryan, an acting under secretary for science at the Department of Homeland Security, detailed the virus’s possible susceptibility to bleach and alcohol. Trump said after a presentation from William N. “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute,” Mr. The frantic reaction was prompted by President Trump’s suggestion on Thursday at a White House briefing that an “injection inside” the human body with a disinfectant like bleach or isopropyl alcohol could help combat the virus.
“It can definitely be a fatal event.”Įven the makers of Clorox and Lysol pleaded with Americans not to inject or ingest their products. Calello, the medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, said in an interview. Injecting bleach or highly concentrated rubbing alcohol “causes massive organ damage and the blood cells in the body to basically burst,” Dr.
Across the country on Friday, health professionals sounded the alarm. In Washington State, officials urged people not to consume laundry detergent capsules.
So it's probably less susceptible to things like heat".WASHINGTON - In Maryland, so many callers flooded a health hotline with questions that the state’s Emergency Management Agency had to issue a warning that “under no circumstances” should any disinfectant be taken to treat the coronavirus. "So I think pinning your hopes on summer is a little bit of a pipe dream."ĭr Fiachra Humphries, an immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, said that COVID-19 is a "much more transmissible virus than other seasonal ones and a lot of studies have shown that this virus can survive on surfaces a lot longer. "We've seen plenty of outbreaks in places that are already warm," she added. Global health expert Alanna Shaikh told Euronews on Tuesday that the fact the virus had spread to Singapore put that theory into question. Many scientists and health experts have made clear that there is no evidence that warmer weather or higher humidity can help stop the spread of the virus. "I don't agree if he said that." 'Pinning your hopes on summer is a pipe dream' "I think we're doing a great job on testing," he added. Other countries are calling us to find out what are we doing." Dr Fauci told Time magazine this week that the United States was "not in a situation where we can say we are exactly where we want to be with regard to testing."Īnd when asked about the doctor's comments during Thursday's press conference Trump said/ "We're very advanced in testing. Dr Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently contradicted the president saying he was "convinced" that the virus would come back in the autumn just after Trump had claimed the virus "may not come back at all".Īnd the contradictions go both ways.
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