Coronavirus News: NYC Poison Control sees uptick in Lysol, bleach exposures after Trump's comment on disinfectants
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Coronavirus News: NYC Poison Control sees uptick in Lysol, bleach exposures after Trump's co mment on disinfectants
This file photo shows a shelf full of Lysol cleaning solution at a CVS. (Shutterstock)
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The New York City Department of Health said it saw an uptick in Lysol and bleach exposures after President Donald Trump wondered about the prospect of the disinfectants being used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus.
In the 18 hours prior to 3 p.m. Friday, the NYC Poison Control Center managed nine cases about exposure to Lysol, 10 bleach cases and 11 cases related to other household cleaners, for a total of 30 cases.
That's more than double the cases during the same 18-hour period in 2019, when the center managed two cases pertaining to bleach, with a total of 13 cases regarding a household product and no Lysol products. The data was first reported in the New York Daily News .
None of these exposures resulted in hospitalization or death.
The NYC Health Department took to social media to urge New Yorkers not to ingest disinfectants.
Do NOT ingest or inject Lysol or any other disinfectant as a treatment for #COVID19 . Household disinfectants are poisonous and can cause serious harm or even death if swallowed or injected. Call the Poison Control Center for info about safe use of products: 212-764-7667 pic.twitter.com/fbOZds1YxL
— nychealthy (@nycHealthy) April 24, 2020
NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot also reiterated the health department's message.
To be clear, disinfectants are not intended for ingestion either by mouth, by ears, by breathing them in any way, shape or form. And doing so can put people at great risk. https://t.co/QFuGdXIPcp
— Commissioner Oxiris Barbot (@NYCHealthCommr) April 24, 2020
At his news conference Thursday, Trump noted that researchers were looking at the effects of disinfectants on the virus and wondered aloud if they could be injected into people, saying the virus "does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that."
The backlash against the comments was swift and overwhelming. The parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned Friday that its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus.
Trump on Friday said his comments were meant to be sarcastic, but did not take questions Friday from reporters, which he normally does, at his daily briefing on the federal coronavirus response.
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Although there weren't that many idiots in NYC who acted on Trump's unbelievably stupid irresponsible comment, I wonder what the figures were for the whole nation, and whether he killed anyone with it.
Are people ingesting it or are the poisonings from mixing bleach with other cleaning chemicals causing a piosonous gas, which was happening before and with the current pandemic, people are cleaning more and making this mistake more often.
Who knows? Anything is possible. But that doesn't make Trump's suggestion any less lethal.
What suggestion? Was his suggestion "go out and drink bleach? I don't think so.
"Who knows" what do you mean by "WHO KNOWS". Shouldn't that have been the first thing for the author of the article to find out, were these people ingesting it and then after being interviewed they stated that Trump said it would work, or is it a simple mixing bleach with window cleaner causing the poisonings which would happen more often because everyone is to be cleaning everything which can transmit the virus.
"Implying" is as good for the goose as it is for the gander. All kinds of conspiracy theories are being implied about China.
The MAGA folk are a different breed. Let them practice their freedom in their own way.
It’s funny how details that might defuse an incendiary headline always seem to get buried.
So, this lunacy was going on already. Trump didn’t give birth to new stupidity just a couple days ago. There is plenty of Stupid in America already. Some of that can also be found in the idea that the president genuinely thought taking bleach internally was something people should do.
I didn't have to read the article to know that Trump has nothing to do with it. Just the fact that all cleaning products got swiped up at the beginning of the pandemic you would figure if you had common sense that there would be a surge in poisonings.
But hey, blaming President Trump makes good headlines for the TDS sufferers.
Of course not. He was stupid a long time ago.
Congratulations. You have managed to completely misunderstand or misrepresent the comment you are replying to.
Duh !
No but he encouraged that stupidity a couple days ago.
Seriously?
He doesnt directly suggest that people should inject themselves with disinfectant, or drink it.
He does suggest that disinfectant INSIDE the human body may combat the virus, and he does mention injection, although I assume he thinks doctors should be the ones to do the injecting.
Donald Trump is almost COMPLETELY incapable of discussing a medical topic. He doesnt have the vocabulary, or the understanding , to do so. He cant even discuss medical issues in the way a relatively well informed layman would do. This is one of the reasons he uses words like "incredible" and "strongly" so much - he badly lacks a wide vocabulary which would enable him to say things with verbal precision.
There is no reason why a president should be speculating about medical procedures he may have vaguely heard someone refer to in a meeting. He doesnt know what he is talking about, its that simple.
He suggested that disinfectant could possibly be used against coronavirus, INSIDE patients bodies. To deny that is what he implied is to deny reality.
As I said, he may have meant something else, but has neither the knowledge or vocabulary to express it properly.
It is a well known maxim that when you dont know what you are talking about you should be quiet.
Trump imagines himself as a hero , and he doesnt know how to be quiet.
How will a written transcript convey sarcasm???
Does the transcript include a sarcasm tag? Does the transcript show who he is addressing the questions to? Why are you so opposed to video evidence??
Did he suggest anyone drink fish tank cleaner? Still happened because of his implication.
You spelled injecting wrong............
No actually Wanda Lenius gave it to her husband without his knowledge and they each supposedly had four times the lethal dosage which she mixed into soda killing him.
The Phoenix DA has not yet charged her with anything but they are considering charges because stupidity is not a good defense for murder.
Wanda was acquitted of domestic assault in 2013...
Sorry she was acquitted in 2000 or 2001.
And the Free Beacon article suggests that yes she was that stupid.
Surviving wife stated it was because of what Trump said. Are you calling her a liar?
The same type of people that will try injecting disinfectants? That kind of dumb? Or the kind of dumb that would imply that injecting disinfectant might be a treatment for COVID19?
Careful, that's twice today we agreed on something, lol.
I'd go with
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