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Yes:"The Healight technology employs proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device." https

Yes:"The Healight technology employs proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device." https://apnews.com/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b https://apnews.com/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b

Alex3917 6y ago
And it ostensibly has the same mechanism of action this, which the FDA already approved recently for compassionate use: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-expands-access-to-bellerophon-s-nitric-oxide-gas-for-covid-19-lung-symptoms https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-expands-access-to-... I'm not fan of Trump, but the attacks on him over this and hydroxychloroquine are ridiculous.
- austingulati 6y ago
  It's hard to defend Trump's words on this topic. He's not a medical expert and doesn't sound like one. But, in my opinion, it would benefit people more if the media tried to educate instead of "hurr durr he wants you to inject Lysol". Sadly I am optimistic in thinking the media exists to educate rather than accumulate ad views... We need to be pursuing all treatment options right now, even if the gut feeling is that they won't work. We're in a situation that we have never been in before (i.e. pandemic with modern medicine), it is not far-fetched to believe the solution is something that we never expected to work. edit: downvoters, feel free to respond..
  - bpnichol 6y ago
    President Trump doesn't purport to be an expert. Indeed, it was a question he directed to the medical experts who were present.
  - artifact_44 6y ago
    My response: Trump is criminally incompetent at being a leader. T The things he has said and done during the course of this pandemic would have landed you or me in jail. I don't think it's his fault, per se, but rather his sheltered upbringing and early exposure to corrupt and selfish behavior resulting in his inability to empathise with other people unless they are involved with maintaining his ego. This whole thread is an attempt to disguise his incompetence as a legitimate inquiry when it's actually just something he heard and is now repeating without any thought to the consequences.
    - austingulati 6y ago
      Perhaps you can elaborate on what you see as "the consequences" to help me understand your point of view? Personally, I didn't think that he was suggesting to inject Lysol until I read that in the main stream media. And when I looked into it myself, I found Healight, and I think this is something the media could have pointed me instead of their knee-jerk Lysol reaction
      - JoeAltmaier 6y ago
        The point is, you had to go looking because it was so confusing. And sounded to many people like dangerous nonsense. Its illustrates the point. A responsible leader would leave the technical communications to competent department heads. Which this joker has mostly fired.
        austingulati 6y ago
        I explicitly agreed with your point a few posts ago: > It's hard to defend Trump's words on this topic. He's not a medical expert and doesn't sound like one. My point is, the media is fighting stupidity with stupidity with this whole Lysol thing. They could have used this as an opportunity to say, we know Trump sounds dumb, but let us teach you about what he is actually referring to
        JoeAltmaier 6y ago
        Sorry I'm a different guy. Should have kept out of it I suppose. But yeah, its a game now, pointing out how (nearly) everything the guy says is dumb. Its not a game we should be playing; he should be sticking to broad goals and comforting the public. Like, you know, a leader. Instead of a regular schmuck way out of his depth who likes to hear himself talk.
        austingulati 6y ago
        No worries! I agree with mostly everything you have written. I just wish that the media used these opportunities to educate people on what Trump was actually talking about instead of getting obsessed with the specific words (namely "disinfectant" and "inject") that he used to describe it
- brandon272 6y ago
  > I'm not fan of Trump, but the attacks on him over this and hydroxychloroquine are ridiculous. Even without going into the absurdity of any of his specific claims, he should not be standing at a podium spitballing and speculating about potential treatments that he may or may not have heard about. Kind of the opposite of what is required from a leader during a crisis, and the impacts of doing so can actually be pretty devastating.
  - austingulati 6y ago
    > impacts of doing so can actually be pretty devastating. Source on this? I have heard about the couple that ate the aquarium chemicals, a bit of a stretch unless I missed the part where Trump mentioned aquarium chemicals
    - brandon272 6y ago
      You need a source to acknowledge that a President's words have impact and that speaking ignorantly and off the cuff on medical topics can lead to misunderstanding and dangerous decision making by the general public? There's a reason why Reckitt Benckiser Group quickly issued a statement after Trump's claims, imploring people not to consume "through injection, ingestion or any other route" any of their products. https://www.rb.com/media/news/2020/april/improper-use-of-disinfectants/ https://www.rb.com/media/news/2020/april/improper-use-of-dis...
      - austingulati 6y ago
        Yeah, and, in my opinion, the reason why Reckitt Benckiser Group quickly issued a statement after Trump's claims is as much the media as Trump himself. The media had an opportunity to educate people on "proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device" to which Trump is referring and instead ran stories about Lysol. Would we even be talking about Lysol if they had led with Healight? I won't claim to know the answer to this question because I don't but it is worth considering that the answer is "no". Edit: just to combat the obvious response, would we even be talking about Lysol if Trump had not made those comments? Obviously, no. Two wrongs don't make a right

Alex3917 6y ago

And it ostensibly has the same mechanism of action this, which the FDA already approved recently for compassionate use: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-expands-access-to-bellerophon-s-nitric-oxide-gas-for-covid-19-lung-symptoms https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-expands-access-to-... I'm not fan of Trump, but the attacks on him over this and hydroxychloroquine are ridiculous.

austingulati 6y ago
It's hard to defend Trump's words on this topic. He's not a medical expert and doesn't sound like one. But, in my opinion, it would benefit people more if the media tried to educate instead of "hurr durr he wants you to inject Lysol". Sadly I am optimistic in thinking the media exists to educate rather than accumulate ad views... We need to be pursuing all treatment options right now, even if the gut feeling is that they won't work. We're in a situation that we have never been in before (i.e. pandemic with modern medicine), it is not far-fetched to believe the solution is something that we never expected to work. edit: downvoters, feel free to respond..
- bpnichol 6y ago
  President Trump doesn't purport to be an expert. Indeed, it was a question he directed to the medical experts who were present.
- artifact_44 6y ago
  My response: Trump is criminally incompetent at being a leader. T The things he has said and done during the course of this pandemic would have landed you or me in jail. I don't think it's his fault, per se, but rather his sheltered upbringing and early exposure to corrupt and selfish behavior resulting in his inability to empathise with other people unless they are involved with maintaining his ego. This whole thread is an attempt to disguise his incompetence as a legitimate inquiry when it's actually just something he heard and is now repeating without any thought to the consequences.
  - austingulati 6y ago
    Perhaps you can elaborate on what you see as "the consequences" to help me understand your point of view? Personally, I didn't think that he was suggesting to inject Lysol until I read that in the main stream media. And when I looked into it myself, I found Healight, and I think this is something the media could have pointed me instead of their knee-jerk Lysol reaction
    - JoeAltmaier 6y ago
      The point is, you had to go looking because it was so confusing. And sounded to many people like dangerous nonsense. Its illustrates the point. A responsible leader would leave the technical communications to competent department heads. Which this joker has mostly fired.
      - austingulati 6y ago
        I explicitly agreed with your point a few posts ago: > It's hard to defend Trump's words on this topic. He's not a medical expert and doesn't sound like one. My point is, the media is fighting stupidity with stupidity with this whole Lysol thing. They could have used this as an opportunity to say, we know Trump sounds dumb, but let us teach you about what he is actually referring to
        JoeAltmaier 6y ago
        Sorry I'm a different guy. Should have kept out of it I suppose. But yeah, its a game now, pointing out how (nearly) everything the guy says is dumb. Its not a game we should be playing; he should be sticking to broad goals and comforting the public. Like, you know, a leader. Instead of a regular schmuck way out of his depth who likes to hear himself talk.
        austingulati 6y ago
        No worries! I agree with mostly everything you have written. I just wish that the media used these opportunities to educate people on what Trump was actually talking about instead of getting obsessed with the specific words (namely "disinfectant" and "inject") that he used to describe it
brandon272 6y ago
> I'm not fan of Trump, but the attacks on him over this and hydroxychloroquine are ridiculous. Even without going into the absurdity of any of his specific claims, he should not be standing at a podium spitballing and speculating about potential treatments that he may or may not have heard about. Kind of the opposite of what is required from a leader during a crisis, and the impacts of doing so can actually be pretty devastating.
- austingulati 6y ago
  > impacts of doing so can actually be pretty devastating. Source on this? I have heard about the couple that ate the aquarium chemicals, a bit of a stretch unless I missed the part where Trump mentioned aquarium chemicals
  - brandon272 6y ago
    You need a source to acknowledge that a President's words have impact and that speaking ignorantly and off the cuff on medical topics can lead to misunderstanding and dangerous decision making by the general public? There's a reason why Reckitt Benckiser Group quickly issued a statement after Trump's claims, imploring people not to consume "through injection, ingestion or any other route" any of their products. https://www.rb.com/media/news/2020/april/improper-use-of-disinfectants/ https://www.rb.com/media/news/2020/april/improper-use-of-dis...
    - austingulati 6y ago
      Yeah, and, in my opinion, the reason why Reckitt Benckiser Group quickly issued a statement after Trump's claims is as much the media as Trump himself. The media had an opportunity to educate people on "proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device" to which Trump is referring and instead ran stories about Lysol. Would we even be talking about Lysol if they had led with Healight? I won't claim to know the answer to this question because I don't but it is worth considering that the answer is "no". Edit: just to combat the obvious response, would we even be talking about Lysol if Trump had not made those comments? Obviously, no. Two wrongs don't make a right