https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trumps-disinfectant-slip-happened-150708279.html?guccounter=1

> Although the US President undoubtedly got the wrong end of the stick, it has emerged that one company really is hoping to trial a new ultraviolet light therapy which it claims can ‘disinfect’ the lungs.

> Colorado-based Aytu BioScience says it has carried out successful early tests of its ‘Healight’ technology which delivers intermittent ultraviolet light through a tube in the throat, directly to the lungs.

>The company itself terms the process ‘injectable disinfectant’ and it is likely to be the origin of President Trump’s comments.

> Aytu is now working with Cedars-Sinai Hospital to speed up regulation so it can trial the technology on critically-ill coronavirus patients in intensive care units in California.

>“Our team has shown that administering a specific spectrum of UV-A light can eradicate viruses in infected human cells (including coronavirus) and bacteria in the area while preserving healthy cells,” said Dr Mark Pimentel of Mast.

>At a press briefing two days after Aytu issued a press release setting out their collaboration with Cedars-Sinai, President Trump said: “Supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. “Sounds interesting. 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?”