By Johnny Edwards
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Two people in Georgia drank liquid cleaning products over the weekend in misguided attempts to ward off COVID-19, according to the Georgia Poison Center. Both men had histories of psychiatric problems and are expected to recover.
The poison center’s director, Gaylord Lopez, said he did not know if the men guzzled the chemicals because they heard about President Donald Trump’s statements during a Thursday White House briefing, when the president wondered aloud if coronavirus could be treated by injecting a disinfectant into the human body.
Since the pandemic began, at least two other Georgians have fallen ill from similar attempts to clean their inner organs with household chemicals, even before Trump’s remarks.
So far, though, the state’s biggest spike in poisonings from cleaning products has been caused by home-bound Georgians mixing products together to furiously scrub surfaces, then falling ill from inhaling fumes. Last year, the poison center handled 49 product-mixing calls in March and April. This year, since March 1 the center has had 115 calls, Lopez said.
“When you mix bleach with certain types of chemicals, you produce a reaction that can cause release of noxious and toxic gases, and if you inhale enough of this stuff, you can induce a chemical pneumonia,” Lopez said.
The same trend has played out across the country with the CDC recommending disinfecting high-touch surfaces, and panicked shoppers clearing store shelves of such products as Clorox, Lysol and hand sanitizer.
In the first three months of the year, calls to poison centers about exposures to household cleaners and disinfectants rose 20 percent. “There appears to be a clear temporal association with increased use of these products,” the CDC noted in a report last week.
Georgia has also seen a rise in cases of children ingesting chemicals because their parents, distracted while working from home, left them unattended around unsecured bottles of fluid and medicines, Lopez said. Overall, poison calls have risen 9 percent this year.
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9 comments:
Pendejos!!! If they are stupid to do it, they deserve whatever happens to them lol Pinche par de pendejos!
Every time the South is reduced by one Redneck....America wins. We're winning with Trump's medical advice!!!
I cannot believe people actually do those things (drinking or shooting up clorox, lysol or any other product). Anybody who does that was not paying attention in biology and chemistry class in high school. But, then again, from the "cult" , I believe it.
Follow the lead bola de racistas republicanos I am sure somebody out there will donate bottles of that magical liquid.
Hillbillys don't go to any schools bunch of idiotas hahahaha dumbasses
Stupid hillbillys
Those 2 will be voting democrat again in no time. Psychiatric issues was your first clue they were blue from the start.
The two in Georgia may not be Trump supporters, but rather "sheep" that have been indoctrinated by Liberals and the media to do anything they are told. Those are Biden or Democratic voters....like the ones we have here in the Rio Grande Valley and especially in Cameron County. The term being used now is "sheeple".
Darwinism in action!
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