Calls to the Georgia Poison Center have risen during the pandemic, with a spike in people reporting illnesses related to cleaning products and disinfectants.
Those increases have occurred nationally, with poison centers seeing up to a 20% rise in exposure calls related to cleaning and disinfecting products, often from inhalation.
It has been a bizarre week related to disinfectants, capped by controversy over President Donald Trump’s remarks about them Thursday at a White House briefing, where he speculated on their use for virus treatment.
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