more than 50,000 people have now died in
America with coronavirus it comes as one
of the world's biggest manufacturers of
disinfectants warned people not to
follow president Trump's suggestion that
injecting themselves with it could treat
coronavirus one leading company said
under no circumstance should its
products be put into human bodies the
president today said his remarks have
been sarcastic on North America editor
John so Paul has more controversially
some of Florida's beaches reopened last
week but maybe it was a smart thing to
do according to new research conducted
by US government scientists sunlight
heat and humidity dramatically reduced
the life of coronavirus in the air and
on hard surfaces the scientists said it
acted as a powerful disinfectant and
that led the president to muse on
whether disinfectant could be used
inside the human body to kill the virus
and then I see the disinfectant where it
knocks it out in a minute one minute and
is there a way we can do something like
that by injection inside or almost of
cleaning because you see it gets in the
lungs and it does a tremendous number
long so it'd be interesting to check
that the president's chief medical
adviser looked as though she'd have
liked Harry Potter's cloak of
invisibility in a minute new Lysol spray
disinfectant for over a century Lysol
has been one of America's top selling
brands of bleach but today in 2020 the
manufacturers felt forced to issue a
statement saying under no circumstances
should people ingest disinfectant
doctors health professionals and
politicians are similarly disbelieving
very clearly disinfectants are not
intended for ingestion either by mouth
by ears by breathing them in in any way
shape or form but today the president
has sought to explain away the
controversy by asserting that he wasn't
actually being serious what I was asking
too sarcastic
in a very sarcastic question to the
reporters in the room about disinfectant
on the inside but it does kill it and it
would kill it on the hands and that
would make things much better that was
done in the form of a sarcastic question
to the reporters another question being
asked forcibly is whether now is the
right time to reopen the US economy in
Georgia today
hairdressers nail salons tattoo parlors
were able to resume business even though
coronavirus is still a serious problem
in the state now leave to one side the
question of whether sarcasm is quite
appropriate from the presidential podium
in the midst of a pandemic Donald
Trump's account is not exactly what
happened I was at last night's briefing
and his remarks were Indra addressed
entirely not to the reporters but to his
chief medical adviser and an official
from the Department of Homeland Security
and he seemed deadly serious now the
White House has been scrambling all day
to come up with an explanation that will
withstand scrutiny it's not entirely
clear that this is it Joe thank you