Last week, President Donald Trump floated the idea of ingesting disinfectants like bleach and isopropyl alcohol as a way to combat the novel coronavirus. Over the weekend, numerous states reported that they’d had an increase in calls to poison control centers, and one man in Kansas drank a cleaning product.
The Witchita Eagle says that health authorities in Kansas saw a 40 percent increase in cleaning chemical cases over the weekend after Trump made the controversial comments.
“A fellow over the weekend who drank a product because of the advice he’d received,” announced Lee Norman, the state health officer in Kansas.
While he didn’t expand on where the advice came from, his comments echo those by other state leaders in Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, and New York who say that calls to their health hotlines have increased with callers asking specifically about exposure to household cleaners after the president said experts should look into internal use of disinfectants.
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