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Mounting poisonings, blindness, deaths as toxic hand sanitizers flood market
The Food and Drug Administration is renewing warnings this week of dangerous hand sanitizers as it continues to find products that contain toxic methanol—a poisonous alcohol that can cause systemic effects, blindness, and death.
The agency's growing "do-not-use list" of dangerous sanitizers now includes 87 products. And with the mounting tally, the FDA also says there are rising reports from state health departments and poison control centers of injuries and deaths.
"We remain extremely concerned about the potential serious risks of alcohol-based hand sanitizers containing methanol," said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn in a statement.
Previously:
Toxic Hand Sanitizers Have Blinded and Killed Adults and Children, FDA Warns
Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns
(Score: 2) by Username on Thursday July 30 2020, @01:27PM (1 child)
You'd lose. A global methanol based sanitizer deaths vs people who attended a Trump rally without a mask. He's had seven rallies in the covid19 timeframe so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-election_Donald_Trump_rallies [wikipedia.org] Averaging about 11k per rally https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/19/president-trumps-crowd-size-estimates-increasingly-unbelievable/ [washingtonpost.com] Let's give Trump the benefit of the doubt and say 100k instead of 70k went to his rallies. Now the average death rate of covid19 is 46.07 per 100k. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality [jhu.edu] Let's say every single person didn't wear masks and got covid, that would be only 47 people. Since sick people don't usually go to rallies, mask or no mask. They go to hospitals. And asymptomatic spread of covid19 is so exceedingly rare, not single case has ever been documented, I'm going to lean towards zero to one person. That one person due to it being impossible to prove a negative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @03:59PM
I suggest you ask Herman Cain about that. Oh wait, you can't, he's dead.