I'm suspicious of reports like this — there are thousands of families whose childcare/adult special needs arrangements have collapsed due to COVID & who are struggling to juggle full-time supervision. I'd expect accidental poisonings due to common household chemicals to be way up
(They are)
For what it's worth, I don't doubt that some very small number of people believe that drinking bleach will protect them from COVID and decided to actually try that. But frankly, judgment like that probably generally represents a larger problem with cognitive function
The fact that inhalations are up over oral ingestions also implies to me that a lot of people may not know how to use cleaning products safely, and possibly a better use of PSA attention would be e.g. not mixing bleach with other household cleaners & always doing proper dilution
In its report, the CDC highlights two cases of poisonings related to COVID prevention mistakes that seem a lot more plausible (and a lot less partisan) than drinking bleach
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