‘Disinfectant,’ ‘Bleach’ Tweets Top ‘Covid-19’ After Trump Gaffe

(Bloomberg) --

U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about injecting disinfectant to treat Covid-19 have sparked a burst of social-media chatter on the subject.

In the last 24 hours, the words “disinfectant” and “bleach” have been tweeted almost 1.6 million times, more than the phrase “Covid-19,” according to TrendsMap.com, which analyzes Twitter data.

“The disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. One minute,” Trump said Thursday in response to a presentation on research showing bleach could quickly kill the virus in respiratory fluids. “Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside?” he added, saying it would be “almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on the lungs.”

Doctors and cleaning product manufacturers warned people not to inject disinfectant, and Trump said later he was being sarcastic.

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