The summary
Floated injecting disinfectant as a potential COVID-19 treatment; medical experts uniformly condemned it.
The fact-check
The comment, delivered at a White House briefing, prompted disinfectant makers and poison control experts to urgently warn the public not to ingest or inject cleaning products.
Truth on the record
Injecting or ingesting disinfectants is lethal. Calls to poison control lines spiked in the days following the remarks.