On April 23 at the daily COVID-19 briefing, President Trump mused about the possible use of light and disinfectants to combat the virus (video). The mainstream media immediately broke out in a viral epidemic of overreaction, alleging the president had suggested that folks ingest Clorox and other bleaches. If Donald Trump weren’t president, he could sue for such lies. In any event, it appears the president may have been on to something.

On the May 1 edition of Fox New’s The Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham focused on the possibility of using “disinfectants” to combat the Wuhan virus. Laura quoted Dr. Burton Dickey, co-founder of Pulmotect: “The drug lands on the surface of lung epithelial cells and signals them to produce superoxide and peroxide for several days… Similar to the way bleach kills germs on a kitchen table, superoxide and peroxide in the lungs rapidly kill germs that are inhaled.”

Ingraham then interviewed the two top guys at Pulmotect Inc., Colin Broom and Leo Linbeck. What their approach is all about is enlisting the innate immune system to fight infection. Here’s Linbeck:

Nature has evolved this really exquisite mechanism for getting your lungs to secrete superoxides at the time they need them… We’ve been able to figure out how to stimulate that, so that we can sorta turn on your innate immunity and put it on high alert. This is your front line defense. And by doing that we can prevent the infection in the lungs, and that’s the game, right. The game here is to stop pneumonia. Pneumonia is what kills people.

And pneumonia is what necessitates the use of ventilators when Covid patients experience the cytokine storm. Laura continued: “We do have innate immunity, and we have to make sure we can trigger it if possible. And that’s what you’re trying to do here, correct?” Linbeck:

That’s correct. We really have two immune systems. We have an innate immune system and an adaptive immune system. A lot of the attention is focused on vaccines and antibodies and those really leverage the adaptive immune system. We’re focused on the innate immune system, and stimulating that. And what’s really exciting about the innate immune system is it is not specific to a pathogen. So if we can figure out a way to unlock and harness the power of the innate immune system, then not only can we protect against Covid, but future emerging pathogens could also be responsive to the same treatments.

The entire segment lasts about 6½ minutes, and to watch it click here and then click on minute 25 on the progress bar. You may be required to sit through a minute of ads. Then you might check out the Pulmotect website.