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So... Trump suggesting sunlight as a treatment for COVID-19 may not have been so crazy? edit: that was a joke, not a very good one I guess.

• dralley 6y ago
  > "I would like you to speak to the medical doctors to see if there's any way that you can apply light and heat to cure, you know, if you could. And maybe you can, maybe you can't." He was talking about 2 things * UV light kills viruses, so why don't you shine UV light into the body to treat the virus * Many viruses such as the flu don't transmit as well during the summer due to the weather conditions (heat + humidity), so could heat treat the virus in-vivo Both of those suggestions are ignorant. He very clearly did not mean that getting some sunlight -> Vitamin D will help Coronavirus.
  • Sargos 6y ago
    >Many viruses such as the flu don't transmit as well during the summer due to the weather conditions (heat + humidity), so could that treat the virus Maybe viruses don't transmit as well during the summer because people are outside more and have higher levels of Vitamin D?
    • holler 6y ago
      I think I read somewhere that in 1918 flu, they noticed that ppl who had lots of exposure to the sun had better outcomes.. anecdotal
  • Nuzzerino 6y ago
    FYI, there is an actual company working on a medical device to put UV light inside the body to light the lungs. It's unproven but in the works. It was subsequently censored by Youtube and Twitter after the President's comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgiHfD_xtvw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgiHfD_xtvw