"Trump is absolutely wrong and irresponsible": Dr Eugene Gu

Injecting disinfectant and exposure to ultraviolet rays could help people with the coronavirus

Doctors, epidemiologists and others reacted with alarm after US President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that injecting disinfectant and exposure to ultraviolet rays could help people with the coronavirus. "Trump is absolutely wrong and irresponsible," Dr Eugene Gu, whose laboratory is involved in coronavirus testing, added, "Clorox, Tide Pods and Lysol will kill coronavirus. No question about it. But if you are infected then the coronavirus is inside your cells. If you use any of those disinfectants to kill the coronavirus in your own cells then you'll die right along with the coronavirus." 

"I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute," Trump said. "One minute! And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that. So, that you're going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me." The comments were immediately slammed by scientists, who said the president was endangering the public's health.