Just chilling, no morning coffee because it's Ramadan, reading up on the clinical trails for ultraviolet blood irradiation therapyhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331205X.2019.1614286 …
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It turns out you really can get the light inside the body! "The laser light is monochromatic, i.e. it has such a wavelength that allows you to bring light into the optical fiber and carry out irradiation intravenously through a catheter in a vein."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_irradiation_therapy …
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Replying to @tomgara
The weird thing is you could follow how he went off the tangent! He started by repeating something he must have heard from the science team—sunlight is a disinfectant on fomites like playground structures, etc.—and ran off with it till it ended up with the light in your lungs.
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It's almost always the case with him, you can sort of forensically trace the impressionist gibberish back until it makes a weird sort of backward sense.
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I bet the origin story of the "sunlight inside the body" thing is a brief re press release ended up in a "positive news roundup" or something that was read by Jared or another member of the WH brain trust and somehow relayed on / overheard by Trump https://apnews.com/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b …
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Replying to @JasonAbbruzzese @zeynep
For sure, this press release coming out on Monday is a thing though
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I'm also wondering if he got the UV-C light idea mixed up here? Someone in CDC or NIH must be looking into this and he might have overheard. There is a plausible and, actually, a good idea about using UVC in ventilation/air-ducts to somewhat sterilize air circulating indoors.
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So it goes from sunlight as disinfectant on fomites to UVC for indoor air to "hey, can we shine that on the lungs"?
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