Boris Johnson Sought “Special Hair Dryer” COVID Cure

The BBC reports:

Boris Johnson asked government scientists whether people could kill Covid by using a “special hair dryer” up their nose, his former aide has claimed. Dominic Cummings said the former prime minister shared a video of a man using such a device with his top advisers. He then asked the medical experts what they thought about the clip, he added. “A low point was when he circulated a video of a guy blowing a special hair dryer up his nose ‘to kill Covid’,” he wrote.

Elsewhere in his witness statement, Mr Cummings alleged that the former prime minister asked him to find a “dead cat” (a term for a striking claim used to distract the media) to draw attention away from Covid in late 2020. “At one point in autumn he told me to ‘put your campaign head back on and figure out how we dead-cat Covid, I’m sick of Covid, I want it off the front pages,'” Mr Cummings added.

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