Louis Gohmert Touts Nonexistent Anti-COVID Powder

The Houston Chronicle reports:

“Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed it is killed.” — U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler.

Gohmert made the comment as he discussed a powder that he said is already in use in Germany. He added that he is trying to get a similar product from an Arizona-based company “fast-tracked” in the United States.

PolitiFact ruling: Pants on Fire. No such product seems to exist and no similar product is in use in Germany. There are no products currently in use as disinfecting agents in the United States that come close to meeting the description Gohmert offered.