Dr. Deborah Birx said the media’s continuing focus on President Trump’s comments about people being injected with disinfectant as a coronavirus treatment “bothers” her and jeopardizes the administration’s ability to get information to people about the pandemic.
“It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle,” Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday “I worry that we don’t get the information to the American people that they need when we continue to bring up something that was from Thursday night.”
“Because I think we’re missing the bigger pieces of what we need to be doing as an American people to continue to protect one another,” Birx added.
She said that Trump was having a “dialogue” with the Department of Homeland Security scientist about information he had recently received about how heat, light and disinfectants affect the coronavirus.
“We have made it clear, and when he turned to me, I made it clear and he understood that it was not as a treatment. And I think that kind of dialogue will happen,” Birx said on CNN.
“I think what got lost in there, which is very unfortunate in what happened next, is that study was critically important for the American people.”
Trump, at last Thursday’s White House briefing, posed a question to William Bryan, the head of science and technology at DHS about using disinfectants or light on the human body to treat coronavirus.
“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, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number, so it will be interesting to check that. So that you’re going to have to use medical doctors. But it sounds, it sounds interesting to me,” Trump said.
After health experts criticized the remarks and Lysol put out a statement warning customers not to inject or ingest disinfectant cleaners, Trump on Friday said his comment was a “sarcastic question to reporters.”
In a separate interview, Birx blasted the media for being “slicey and dicey” in writing headlines about the pandemic.
“I think the media is very slicey and dicey about how they put sentences together in order to create headlines … We know for millennials in other studies that some people may only read the headlines. And if there’s not a graphic, they’re not going to look any further than that,” she said Saturday on Fox News’ “Watters World.”
“And I think we have to be responsible about our headlines. I think often, the reporting maybe accurate in paragraph three, four, and five. But I’m not sure how many people actually get to paragraph three, four, and five,” Birx added.
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