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Calculated Shard: 181 (from laksa079)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa181.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-coronavirus-inject-disinfectant-doctors-reject-2020-4\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-coronavirus-inject-disinfectant-doctors-reject-2020-4\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-coronavirus-inject-disinfectant-doctors-reject-2020-4","crawl_time":1776392788,"first_indexed_time":1587726525,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,businessinsider!www,\/trump-coronavirus-inject-disinfectant-doctors-reject-2020-4 s443","src_root_hash":"15170859634011428381","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Doctors Reject Trump Idea of Injecting Disinfectant to Treat COVID-19 - Business Insider","meta_descriptions":["President Donald Trump suggested looking into injecting disinfectants into the human body to treat the coronavirus. Doctors are horrified."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"President Donald Trump at Thursday's coronavirus press briefing discussed the possibility of using disinfectants to treat the coronavirus.\nJabin Botsford\/The Washington Post via Getty Images\n2020-04-24T11:06:49.000Z\nPresident Donald Trump suggested Thursday\nthat scientists should look into using disinfectants\nas a coronavirus treatment.\nMedics leaped to criticize this suggestion and outlined the dangers of taking any form of disinfectant internally, whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection.\nFDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn defended the president\non CNN\n, saying he had been musing on questions any ordinary American would have. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent, said it shouldn't be studied at all.\nVisit Business Insider's homepage for more stories\n.\nMedical experts slammed\nsuggestions made by President Donald Trump\non Thursday that injecting disinfectants into the human body might be used as \"a cleaning\" to treat coronavirus infections.\nFollowing a presentation at the White House coronavirus press briefing in which Bill Bryan, a Department of Homeland Security official, described the effects that heat, ultraviolet light, and bleach had been found to have on killing the coronavirus on various surfaces, Trump mused on the ways this might be applied internally on a patient.\nThe president rhetorically asked what would happen if doctors \"brought the light inside the body\" and whether a disinfectant could be used \"like injection inside, or almost a cleaning,\" and said the issue needed to be studied.\nTrump has previously touted other unproven remedies, such as the\nanti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine\n, as potential wonder cures or treatments for COVID-19, though any treatment decisions should be made by one's doctor.\nIn the latest case, doctors on TV and social media were quick to dismiss the use of disinfectants in the ways Trump suggested as both ineffective and dangerous.\nDr. Esther Choo, an emergency-room doctor at Oregon Health & Science University, reacted with disbelief\non MSNBC\n, saying: \"The idea that is introducing something that is a known toxin into the body, isopropyl alcohol, disinfectants — those are things that we always worry that kids swallow accidentally, or that people who are intentionally trying to hurt themselves will swallow accidentally.\"\n\"We know the answer to this one,\" Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, told\nthe network's Anderson Cooper\n, adding that the idea was not even worth testing because the dangers of disinfectants on the human body were already known.\nSpeaking with Gupta and Cooper in another interview, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, defended Trump, saying he had simply been airing questions that \"I as a doctor would have expected to hear from someone as a natural extension of the data that were presented.\"\nBut when Gupta said: \"There's absolutely no merit to it. That doesn't need to be studied. You can already say that that doesn't work, right?\" Hahn conceded that medical experts would agree. \nDr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and MSNBC commentator,\ntold NBC News\n: \"This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible and it's dangerous.\"\n\"It's a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves.\"\nResponding specifically to the idea of inhalation of disinfectant, the pulmonologist John Balmes from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital\ntold Bloomberg News\nthat it would be \"absolutely the worst thing for the lungs\" and that \"the airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant.\"\n\"Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe,\" he said. \"It's a totally ridiculous concept.\"\nOn Twitter, Judy Melinek, a doctor and forensic pathologist — whose job is to examine people's cause of death — said simply: \"Oh FFS please don't do this. I don't need the extra work.\"\nThe presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, also weighed in on Twitter, saying the president should focus on providing protective equipment to medics and roll out more testing.\nReckitt Benckiser, the manufacturer of cleaning products like Lysol and Dettol,\nissued a clarification on Friday\n, saying: \"under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route).\"\ncoronavirus\nDonald Trump\nRead 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Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post via Getty Images\n\n2020-04-24T11:06:49.000Z\n\nShare\n\nCopy link\n\n[Email](<mailto:?subject=Doctors are lining up to attack Trump for suggesting that injecting disinfectant might help fight the coronavirus&body=Doctors%20are%20lining%20up%20to%20attack%20Trump%20for%20suggesting%20that%20injecting%20disinfectant%20might%20help%20fight%20the%20coronavirus%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ftrump-coronavirus-inject-disinfectant-doctors-reject-2020-4&> \"Email\")\n\nFacebook\n\nWhatsApp\n\nX\n\nLinkedIn\n\nBluesky\n\nThreads\n\nAn icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.\n\nImpact Link\n\nSave Saved\n\n[Read in app](https:\/\/insider-app.onelink.me\/4cpG\/?af_js_web=true&af_ss_ver=2_3_0&af_dp=insider%3A%2F%2Fbi%2Fpost%2Ftrump-coronavirus-inject-disinfectant-doctors-reject-2020-4&af_force_deeplink=true&is_retargeting=true&deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ftrump-coronavirus-inject-disinfectant-doctors-reject-2020-4&pid=businessinsider&c=post_page_share_bar_v2_smart_4.13.23 \"Download the app\")\n\n- President Donald Trump suggested Thursday [that scientists should look into using disinfectants](https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-wants-bring-light-inside-the-body-to-kill-coronavirus-2020-4) as a coronavirus treatment.\n- Medics leaped to criticize this suggestion and outlined the dangers of taking any form of disinfectant internally, whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection.\n- FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn defended the president [on CNN](https:\/\/twitter.com\/AC360\/status\/1253498117057634304), saying he had been musing on questions any ordinary American would have. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent, said it shouldn't be studied at all.\n- [Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories](https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?hprecirc-bullet=).\n\nMedical experts slammed [suggestions made by President Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-wants-bring-light-inside-the-body-to-kill-coronavirus-2020-4) on Thursday that injecting disinfectants into the human body might be used as \"a cleaning\" to treat coronavirus infections.\n\nFollowing a presentation at the White House coronavirus press briefing in which Bill Bryan, a Department of Homeland Security official, described the effects that heat, ultraviolet light, and bleach had been found to have on killing the coronavirus on various surfaces, Trump mused on the ways this might be applied internally on a patient.\n\nThe president rhetorically asked what would happen if doctors \"brought the light inside the body\" and whether a disinfectant could be used \"like injection inside, or almost a cleaning,\" and said the issue needed to be studied.\n\nTrump has previously touted other unproven remedies, such as the [anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine](https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hydroxychloroquine-trump-coronavirus-wonder-drug-does-it-work-2020-4), as potential wonder cures or treatments for COVID-19, though any treatment decisions should be made by one's doctor.\n\nIn the latest case, doctors on TV and social media were quick to dismiss the use of disinfectants in the ways Trump suggested as both ineffective and dangerous.\n\nDr. Esther Choo, an emergency-room doctor at Oregon Health & Science University, reacted with disbelief [on MSNBC](https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-beat-with-ari\/watch\/medical-expert-worried-about-trump-after-bizarre-question-on-injecting-disinfectant-82476101736), saying: \"The idea that is introducing something that is a known toxin into the body, isopropyl alcohol, disinfectants — those are things that we always worry that kids swallow accidentally, or that people who are intentionally trying to hurt themselves will swallow accidentally.\"\n\n\"We know the answer to this one,\" Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, told [the network's Anderson Cooper](https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnns-sanjay-gupta-debunks-trumps-claim-about-possibly-injecting-people-with-disinfectant-dangerous-and-counterproductive\/), adding that the idea was not even worth testing because the dangers of disinfectants on the human body were already known.\n\nSpeaking with Gupta and Cooper in another interview, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, defended Trump, saying he had simply been airing questions that \"I as a doctor would have expected to hear from someone as a natural extension of the data that were presented.\"\n\nBut when Gupta said: \"There's absolutely no merit to it. That doesn't need to be studied. You can already say that that doesn't work, right?\" Hahn conceded that medical experts would agree.\n\n> —Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) [April 24, 2020](https:\/\/twitter.com\/mims\/statuses\/1253498117057634304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nDr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and MSNBC commentator, [told NBC News](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/it-s-irresponsible-it-s-dangerous-experts-rip-trump-s-n1191246?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma): \"This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible and it's dangerous.\"\n\n\"It's a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves.\"\n\nResponding specifically to the idea of inhalation of disinfectant, the pulmonologist John Balmes from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital [told Bloomberg News](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-23\/coronavirus-dies-fastest-under-light-warm-and-humid-conditions) that it would be \"absolutely the worst thing for the lungs\" and that \"the airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant.\"\n\n\"Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe,\" he said. \"It's a totally ridiculous concept.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Judy Melinek, a doctor and forensic pathologist — whose job is to examine people's cause of death — said simply: \"Oh FFS please don't do this. I don't need the extra work.\"\n\n> —Judy Melinek M.D. (@drjudymelinek) [April 24, 2020](https:\/\/twitter.com\/mims\/statuses\/1253478628223938560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nThe presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, also weighed in on Twitter, saying the president should focus on providing protective equipment to medics and roll out more testing.\n\n> —Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) [April 24, 2020](https:\/\/twitter.com\/mims\/statuses\/1253484122749784064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nReckitt Benckiser, the manufacturer of cleaning products like Lysol and Dettol, [issued a clarification on Friday](https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dettol-urge-dont-inject-disinfectant-tokill-coronavirus-trump-idea-2020-4), saying: \"under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route).\"\n### Recommended video\n- [coronavirus](https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/coronavirus \"coronavirus\")\n- 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Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post via Getty Images\n\n2020-04-24T11:06:49.000Z\n\n- President Donald Trump suggested Thursday [that scientists should look into using disinfectants](https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-wants-bring-light-inside-the-body-to-kill-coronavirus-2020-4) as a coronavirus treatment.\n- Medics leaped to criticize this suggestion and outlined the dangers of taking any form of disinfectant internally, whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection.\n- FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn defended the president [on CNN](https:\/\/twitter.com\/AC360\/status\/1253498117057634304), saying he had been musing on questions any ordinary American would have. 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Boilerpipe Text	President Donald Trump at Thursday's coronavirus press briefing discussed the possibility of using disinfectants to treat the coronavirus. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images 2020-04-24T11:06:49.000Z President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that scientists should look into using disinfectants as a coronavirus treatment. Medics leaped to criticize this suggestion and outlined the dangers of taking any form of disinfectant internally, whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn defended the president on CNN , saying he had been musing on questions any ordinary American would have. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent, said it shouldn't be studied at all. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Medical experts slammed suggestions made by President Donald Trump on Thursday that injecting disinfectants into the human body might be used as "a cleaning" to treat coronavirus infections. Following a presentation at the White House coronavirus press briefing in which Bill Bryan, a Department of Homeland Security official, described the effects that heat, ultraviolet light, and bleach had been found to have on killing the coronavirus on various surfaces, Trump mused on the ways this might be applied internally on a patient. The president rhetorically asked what would happen if doctors "brought the light inside the body" and whether a disinfectant could be used "like injection inside, or almost a cleaning," and said the issue needed to be studied. Trump has previously touted other unproven remedies, such as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine , as potential wonder cures or treatments for COVID-19, though any treatment decisions should be made by one's doctor. In the latest case, doctors on TV and social media were quick to dismiss the use of disinfectants in the ways Trump suggested as both ineffective and dangerous. Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency-room doctor at Oregon Health & Science University, reacted with disbelief on MSNBC , saying: "The idea that is introducing something that is a known toxin into the body, isopropyl alcohol, disinfectants — those are things that we always worry that kids swallow accidentally, or that people who are intentionally trying to hurt themselves will swallow accidentally." "We know the answer to this one," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, told the network's Anderson Cooper , adding that the idea was not even worth testing because the dangers of disinfectants on the human body were already known. Speaking with Gupta and Cooper in another interview, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, defended Trump, saying he had simply been airing questions that "I as a doctor would have expected to hear from someone as a natural extension of the data that were presented." But when Gupta said: "There's absolutely no merit to it. That doesn't need to be studied. You can already say that that doesn't work, right?" Hahn conceded that medical experts would agree. Dr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and MSNBC commentator, told NBC News : "This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible and it's dangerous." "It's a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves." Responding specifically to the idea of inhalation of disinfectant, the pulmonologist John Balmes from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital told Bloomberg News that it would be "absolutely the worst thing for the lungs" and that "the airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant." "Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe," he said. "It's a totally ridiculous concept." On Twitter, Judy Melinek, a doctor and forensic pathologist — whose job is to examine people's cause of death — said simply: "Oh FFS please don't do this. I don't need the extra work." The presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, also weighed in on Twitter, saying the president should focus on providing protective equipment to medics and roll out more testing. Reckitt Benckiser, the manufacturer of cleaning products like Lysol and Dettol, issued a clarification on Friday , saying: "under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)." coronavirus Donald Trump Read next
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent, said it shouldn't be studied at all. - [Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories](https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet=). Medical experts slammed [suggestions made by President Donald Trump](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wants-bring-light-inside-the-body-to-kill-coronavirus-2020-4) on Thursday that injecting disinfectants into the human body might be used as "a cleaning" to treat coronavirus infections. Following a presentation at the White House coronavirus press briefing in which Bill Bryan, a Department of Homeland Security official, described the effects that heat, ultraviolet light, and bleach had been found to have on killing the coronavirus on various surfaces, Trump mused on the ways this might be applied internally on a patient. The president rhetorically asked what would happen if doctors "brought the light inside the body" and whether a disinfectant could be used "like injection inside, or almost a cleaning," and said the issue needed to be studied. Trump has previously touted other unproven remedies, such as the [anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine](https://www.businessinsider.com/hydroxychloroquine-trump-coronavirus-wonder-drug-does-it-work-2020-4), as potential wonder cures or treatments for COVID-19, though any treatment decisions should be made by one's doctor. In the latest case, doctors on TV and social media were quick to dismiss the use of disinfectants in the ways Trump suggested as both ineffective and dangerous. Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency-room doctor at Oregon Health & Science University, reacted with disbelief [on MSNBC](https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/medical-expert-worried-about-trump-after-bizarre-question-on-injecting-disinfectant-82476101736), saying: "The idea that is introducing something that is a known toxin into the body, isopropyl alcohol, disinfectants — those are things that we always worry that kids swallow accidentally, or that people who are intentionally trying to hurt themselves will swallow accidentally." "We know the answer to this one," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, told [the network's Anderson Cooper](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-sanjay-gupta-debunks-trumps-claim-about-possibly-injecting-people-with-disinfectant-dangerous-and-counterproductive/), adding that the idea was not even worth testing because the dangers of disinfectants on the human body were already known. Speaking with Gupta and Cooper in another interview, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, defended Trump, saying he had simply been airing questions that "I as a doctor would have expected to hear from someone as a natural extension of the data that were presented." But when Gupta said: "There's absolutely no merit to it. That doesn't need to be studied. You can already say that that doesn't work, right?" Hahn conceded that medical experts would agree. > —Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) [April 24, 2020](https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1253498117057634304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Dr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and MSNBC commentator, [told NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/it-s-irresponsible-it-s-dangerous-experts-rip-trump-s-n1191246?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma): "This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible and it's dangerous." "It's a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves." Responding specifically to the idea of inhalation of disinfectant, the pulmonologist John Balmes from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital [told Bloomberg News](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/coronavirus-dies-fastest-under-light-warm-and-humid-conditions) that it would be "absolutely the worst thing for the lungs" and that "the airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant." "Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe," he said. "It's a totally ridiculous concept." On Twitter, Judy Melinek, a doctor and forensic pathologist — whose job is to examine people's cause of death — said simply: "Oh FFS please don't do this. I don't need the extra work." > —Judy Melinek M.D. (@drjudymelinek) [April 24, 2020](https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1253478628223938560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) The presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, also weighed in on Twitter, saying the president should focus on providing protective equipment to medics and roll out more testing. > —Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) [April 24, 2020](https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1253484122749784064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Reckitt Benckiser, the manufacturer of cleaning products like Lysol and Dettol, [issued a clarification on Friday](https://www.businessinsider.com/dettol-urge-dont-inject-disinfectant-tokill-coronavirus-trump-idea-2020-4), saying: "under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)." ### Recommended video - [coronavirus](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/coronavirus "coronavirus") - [Donald Trump](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/donald-trump "Donald Trump") ## Read next ![](<data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E>) ![](https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/logos/placeholder.png) ### Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know ![](<data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E>) ![](https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/logos/placeholder.png) ### Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know ![](<data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E>) ![](https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/logos/placeholder.png) ### Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know ![](<data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E>) ![](https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/logos/placeholder.png) ### Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know [HOME](https://www.businessinsider.com/) [Subscribe](https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription "Subscribe") [![Business Insider](<data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E>) ![](https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/logos/stacked-black.svg)](https://www.businessinsider.com/ "Visit Business Insider") [![Download on the App Store](<data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E>) ![](https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/badges/app-store-badge.svg)](https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id554260576?mt=8) [![Get it on Google Play](<data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E>) ![](https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/badges/google-play-badge.svg)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freerange360.mpp.businessinsider) Legal & Privacy - 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Readable Markdown	![Trump](https://i.insider.com/5ea2ba04f242ab486e783506?width=700) President Donald Trump at Thursday's coronavirus press briefing discussed the possibility of using disinfectants to treat the coronavirus. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images 2020-04-24T11:06:49.000Z - President Donald Trump suggested Thursday [that scientists should look into using disinfectants](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wants-bring-light-inside-the-body-to-kill-coronavirus-2020-4) as a coronavirus treatment. - Medics leaped to criticize this suggestion and outlined the dangers of taking any form of disinfectant internally, whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection. - FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn defended the president [on CNN](https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1253498117057634304), saying he had been musing on questions any ordinary American would have. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent, said it shouldn't be studied at all. - [Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories](https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet=). Medical experts slammed [suggestions made by President Donald Trump](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wants-bring-light-inside-the-body-to-kill-coronavirus-2020-4) on Thursday that injecting disinfectants into the human body might be used as "a cleaning" to treat coronavirus infections. Following a presentation at the White House coronavirus press briefing in which Bill Bryan, a Department of Homeland Security official, described the effects that heat, ultraviolet light, and bleach had been found to have on killing the coronavirus on various surfaces, Trump mused on the ways this might be applied internally on a patient. The president rhetorically asked what would happen if doctors "brought the light inside the body" and whether a disinfectant could be used "like injection inside, or almost a cleaning," and said the issue needed to be studied. Trump has previously touted other unproven remedies, such as the [anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine](https://www.businessinsider.com/hydroxychloroquine-trump-coronavirus-wonder-drug-does-it-work-2020-4), as potential wonder cures or treatments for COVID-19, though any treatment decisions should be made by one's doctor. In the latest case, doctors on TV and social media were quick to dismiss the use of disinfectants in the ways Trump suggested as both ineffective and dangerous. Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency-room doctor at Oregon Health & Science University, reacted with disbelief [on MSNBC](https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/medical-expert-worried-about-trump-after-bizarre-question-on-injecting-disinfectant-82476101736), saying: "The idea that is introducing something that is a known toxin into the body, isopropyl alcohol, disinfectants — those are things that we always worry that kids swallow accidentally, or that people who are intentionally trying to hurt themselves will swallow accidentally." "We know the answer to this one," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, told [the network's Anderson Cooper](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-sanjay-gupta-debunks-trumps-claim-about-possibly-injecting-people-with-disinfectant-dangerous-and-counterproductive/), adding that the idea was not even worth testing because the dangers of disinfectants on the human body were already known. Speaking with Gupta and Cooper in another interview, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, defended Trump, saying he had simply been airing questions that "I as a doctor would have expected to hear from someone as a natural extension of the data that were presented." But when Gupta said: "There's absolutely no merit to it. That doesn't need to be studied. You can already say that that doesn't work, right?" Hahn conceded that medical experts would agree. Dr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and MSNBC commentator, [told NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/it-s-irresponsible-it-s-dangerous-experts-rip-trump-s-n1191246?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma): "This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible and it's dangerous." "It's a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves." Responding specifically to the idea of inhalation of disinfectant, the pulmonologist John Balmes from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital [told Bloomberg News](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/coronavirus-dies-fastest-under-light-warm-and-humid-conditions) that it would be "absolutely the worst thing for the lungs" and that "the airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant." "Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe," he said. "It's a totally ridiculous concept." On Twitter, Judy Melinek, a doctor and forensic pathologist — whose job is to examine people's cause of death — said simply: "Oh FFS please don't do this. I don't need the extra work." The presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, also weighed in on Twitter, saying the president should focus on providing protective equipment to medics and roll out more testing. Reckitt Benckiser, the manufacturer of cleaning products like Lysol and Dettol, [issued a clarification on Friday](https://www.businessinsider.com/dettol-urge-dont-inject-disinfectant-tokill-coronavirus-trump-idea-2020-4), saying: "under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)." - [coronavirus](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/coronavirus "coronavirus") - [Donald Trump](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/donald-trump "Donald Trump") Read next
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