Arizona Church Exaggerated COVID-Free Tech, So Says Parent Company

The Arizona church hosting President Trump‘s next rally overplayed its hand by claiming it’s got tech to zap away COVID-19 … so say the owners of that technology.

Tim Bender — the Chief Strategy Officer of CleanAir EXP, which sold the fancy air purification system to Dream City Church — tells TMZ, the dudes who said they’d be ‘rona-proof come Tuesday went overboard, and flat-out exaggerated about CleanAir’s product.

He says that while their air purifiers theoretically can’t hurt in helping fend off COVID-19 molecules, it actually hasn’t quite been specifically tested to combat the disease.

What it has gone up against in a lab is 19’s ugly cousin, COVID-229E … which is said to be a surrogate of the big baddie, with a similar protein structure. Bender says in testing, ionized particles churned out via his system “neutralize” COVID-229E.

BTW, Bender tells us he would love to get in touch with the CDC to see if his air system can do some good on a larger scale — but just hasn’t been able to get in touch. He says he’s hoping when Trump comes to town and hears all the buzz, it might help him make a CDC connect.

Sounds interesting, and maybe it will kick COVID-19’s ass in testing — but until then, CleanAir isn’t trying to get ahead of itself. Unfortunately, one of its most recent customers, the Dream City Church, already has.