The trump statement “covid-19 is curable” is not based on clinical facts

said Trump about covid-19

Jack Vincent
5 min readJan 14, 2021

President of the United States Donald Trump seems to be destroying the nation he leads himself. Thus The New Yorker responded to Trump’s remarks which he delivered on Thursday evening, April 23 local time. On that occasion, Trump questioned whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus could be “cured” by injecting a disinfectant into the body.

“I see disinfectants can kill the virus in one minute. So, is there any possibility if we inject it into the body to clean it? Because the virus enters the lungs and there are so many in the lungs, “Trump said in front of White House reporters.

Trump said this while occasionally looking at Deborah Birx, Coordinator of the White House COVID-19 Task Force, as if asking for affirmation. But Birx didn’t nod at all. Instead, he gave a surprised response and just fell silent.

The video of the press conference that night went viral on social media, especially regarding Birx’s facial expression, which netizens considered as “a representation of everyone’s reaction when they heard Trump’s statement”.

Trump’s statement is polemic if not misleading. The suggestion to inject disinfectant liquid into the body to kill the Corona virus is considered by some experts to be very dangerous. Especially when many people panic about this deadly virus infection.

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Using disinfectants is believed to kill viruses on surfaces. However, it becomes different if the fluid is injected into the body.

“Injecting bleach to neutralize the virus is not only ineffective but can also cause dangerous side effects to death,” said Rob Chilcott, a toxicologist from the University of Hertfordshire, as quoted by the BBC.

He added that the disinfectant liquid has no effect on viruses that have infected cells in the body.

Meanwhile, a number of owners of disinfectant liquid companies such as Reckitt Benckiser — owner of the Lysol, Dettol, Vanish and Cillit Bangs brands — warn that their products are strongly discouraged from being injected, consumed or put into the body in any way.

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The official statement was written by the management of RB owned by the Lysol and Dettol brands in a written statement responding, not directly to Trump’s statement but a request for an investigation regarding the possibility of disinfectants being used in the method of treating COVID-19.

Later, Trump denied that the statement the other day was a serious statement but only a sarcastic question to reporters.

Not only about injecting disinfectants, on the same occasion Trump also put forward his theory that ultraviolet rays can kill the Corona virus.

More fully, Trump said “I think we can use sunlight into the body. Maybe through the skin or some other way. You said you wanted to test that out, right? (to Brix). So we’ll see, but if sunlight can kill (the virus), that’s great, “Trump said.

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Trump certainly didn’t draw that conclusion from a vacuum. He is showing the results of the US Army’s advanced biosecurity laboratory tests at Fort Detrick. The lab test results were presented by William N. Bryan from the US Department of Homeland Security at the COVID-19 Task Force’s daily press conference.

Bryan explained that even though he had not received any reviews from partners, the lab tests showed that the Corona virus, like other viruses, would not survive on surfaces exposed to high ultraviolet light, was warm and had high humidity. The higher the temperature and humidity, the faster the SARS-CoV-2 died.

“We tested it every 18 hours. This means that in 18 hours the virus will die half of it. For example, we started with a thousand virus particles and in 18 hours of testing, that number would have halved to 500 particles. And the next 18 hours will drop to 250 particles, and so on, “explained Bryan to reporters, as written by the Washington Post.

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The study also showed that, although not directly exposed to ultraviolet light, the virus will also not survive long under high temperatures indoors.

Bryan also stressed that it would be very irresponsible for him to say “summer will kill this virus”.

The results of the study were also criticized by a number of experts. Just like disinfectants, ultraviolet light is only effective at killing viruses on the surface. It is not yet known how long it takes for a person to be exposed to UV light to kill viruses on the surface.

Dr Penny Ward, Professor of Pharmaceutical Medicine at King’s College London explains that UV radiation and high temperatures can kill viruses on surfaces. “But there are no studies or further studies that prove UV rays can kill viruses that have entered the body,” Ward told the BBC.

Interestingly, President Joko Widodo agreed with Trump’s reckless statement. On April 24, 2020, in uploading a youtube video on the official account of the Indonesian Presidential Secretariat, Jokowi welcomed the news from the US Department of Homeland Defense.

“This news is very pleasing to us because we live in a tropical nature where the temperature is hot, the air is humid and the sun is rich. However, the protocol for preventing COVID-19 must be followed, ”said Jokowi. However, those claims still have to be retested instead of relying solely on summer to deal with COVID-19.

This is not the time for Trump to issue a controversial statement regarding the handling of COVID-19. Previously, he finally decided to withdraw US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) because he considered the organization to be too China-centric and gave wrong recommendations regarding handling COVID-19 from the start.

In addition, last week he also fired an infectious disease expert from Rick A. Bright’s Advanced Biomedical Research and Development Authority. The reason is that Bright continues to push for stricter testing of the use of chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, which Trump has hailed as a “miracle” for COVID-19.

Both Trump’s statements and decisions are seen as increasingly endangering his citizens. Based on WorldOMeters data, as of April 27, 2020, the United States recorded 1.07 million positive cases and 56,624 deaths due to COVID-19, still the highest in the world.

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