Name: Why Trump was making 'sarcastic' comments about disinfectant | DC lockdown diary
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Though for many of us residents of the city

For me and my family, we've now been here for about six weeks.

I will be bringing you a weekly blog trying

Right now, I'm thinking a lot about disinfectant.

I'm speaking just hours after several major household goods

companies were forced to issue warnings to their customers

telling them not to drink or inject disinfectant.

And that's because US President Donald Trump wondered aloud

from his press conference podium last night whether doing so

might actually constitute an effective treatment

the video doing the rounds of his medical adviser Dr Deborah

Birx, apparently trying to hide her reaction to the president

But actually, there's a more serious underlying issue here.

I suspect that one of the reasons that the president was

talking in this way was that it reflects a growing

pessimism among many people about the potential treatments

that rendesivir, the drug being developed by the company

Gilead, has not proven effective in its first round

serious side effects for some of the patients being treated.

Then this morning the US Food and Drugs Administration

has warned doctors about prescribing hydroxychloroquine.

That's the drug that the president has also

talked glowingly about, particularly in conjunction

The FDA said this morning that those drugs,

hydroxychloroquine on its own, could cause heart problems

We remain, I suspect, many months away from a treatment,

and certainly more than a year away from a vaccine.

What that tells me then is that when the lockdowns do start

to end, as we're seeing in some parts of Europe, for example,

is that they will have to be ended very, very

gradually indeed to make sure that the health

systems worldwide don't get very quickly overwhelmed.

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Why Trump was making 'sarcastic' comments about disinfectant | DC lockdown diary

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