A timeline of Trump's musings on the false idea of injecting 'light' and 'disinfectant' to treat coronavirus — from a presentation to Trump's claim he was being 'sarcastic'

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• At a press conference on Thursday night, US President Donald Trump, pondered, aloud, whether shining "very powerful light" inside the human body or injecting "disinfectant" could kill off the coronavirus.
• Trump said Friday that he was just being "sarcastic" when he mused about ingesting people with "light" and "disinfectant" to treat COVID-19.
• But earlier, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, defended the comments. "When he gets new information he likes to talk that through," she told Fox News.
• The US Centers for Disease Control also reminded people on Friday that, "Household cleaners and disinfectants can cause health problems when not used properly."
• Here's a timeline of Trump's comments.
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At a press conference on Thursday night, President Donald Trump, pondered, aloud, whether shining "very powerful light" inside the human body or injecting "disinfectant" could kill off the coronavirus.

Here's a timeline of how Trump came to make this claim — and the subsequent fallout:

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