"Relying on anything this white house "announces"….or...

"Relying on anything this white house "announces"….or speculation RE "pending announcements"……require a special degree of circumspection.

As for Birx:

"Trump took to the podium and said, 'So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting.'Birx then smirked briefly and looked down. 'And is there a way we can do something like that?," he went on, as Birx stiffened back into her chair, "by injection inside or almost a cleaning." Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.' Doctors decried Trump's idea as dangerous and irresponsible, while Trump claimed Friday he was simply being "sarcastic." But Birx defended his comments in an interview with Fox News, which appears to have been filmed before Trump's claim that he was being sarcastic. Birx said Trump was given new information shortly before the briefing, and he likes to "talk that through out loud and really have that dialogue." 'He was still digesting" the information', Birx said."

There are times when being a political toady is inappropriate for public health and one's personal integrity. That was one.