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Dr Deborah Birx, the US administration's Covid-19 co-ordinator, sits stony faced as her boss adds disinfectant injections and the insertion of ultraviolet probes onto her research Must-Do list during a press briefing last week.

The president has since said that he was being "sarcastic" in his remarks. Birx defended the president to the media afterwards: “When he gets new information, he likes to talk that through out loud and really have that dialogue — and so that’s what dialogue he was having. I think he just saw the information at the time immediately before the press conference and he was still digesting that information.”

In another press conference, Bill Bryan, an undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, shared that a US government study had found that the virus could be killed with exposure to sunlight, heat and humidity. He suggested Americans consider “increasing the temperature and humidity for potentially contaminated indoor spaces” as a way to combat the virus.  Bryan also spoke about disinfectants, and said the study found bleach could kill the virus living in saliva within five minutes, “just spraying it on and letting it go.”

[link url="https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-04-23-20/h_4e3422160264666f427961f37a34e5b3"]Bryan interview on CNN[/link]

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