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Doctors and disinfectant makers on Friday urged people not to drink or inject disinfectant, after US President Donald Trump suggested scientists should investigate inserting the cleaning agent into the body as a cure for the novel coronavirus.
“The disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. One minute. Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside (the body)?” Trump asked at his daily briefing on Thursday. “Because, you see, it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that out.”
“This is one of the most dangerous and idiotic suggestions made so far in how one might actually treat Covid-19,” said Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at Britain’s University of East Anglia. “You may not die of Covid-19 after injecting disinfectant, but only because you may already be dead from the injection.”