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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 a cleaning?

Donald J. Trump•April 23, 2020•White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing•groupsPress Conference

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Floated injecting disinfectant as a potential COVID-19 treatment; medical experts uniformly condemned it.

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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.

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AP News - Apr 10, 2026
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