White House coronavirus task force response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx largely defended President Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that injecting disinfectants could treat coronavirus, saying on Sunday that it “bothers” her that this is still in the news cycle as the president was just “musing” on
During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Birx was confronted about the president using an “emerging result” from the Department of Homeland Security that showed sunlight, heat and disinfectants could weaken the spread of the virus to question whether ingesting bleach could be a potential cure.
Trump, however, attempted to claim on Friday that he was posing the question about disinfectants “sarcastically” to reporters in the Thursday briefing “just to see what would happen.” “As a doctor, doesn’t that bother you, that you have to even spend any time discussing this?” Tapper pressed Birx. “I think the president made it clear that physicians had to study this,” Birx stated. “I think I’ve made it clear that this was a musing, as you described.”
Asked by anchor Chuck Todd whether she was worried that Trump’s comments and touting of unproven cures were undermining the credibility of task force scientists, Birx largely avoided the question.
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