COVID-19: home poisoning throughout the containment period
Gaël Le Roux, Sandra Sinno‐Tellier, Alexis Descatha
Abstract
The world is facing a major pandemic situation, with more than 2 million confirmed cases and 139 000 related deaths, as of April 18, 2020.1 Although health systems have to deal with such disasters to decrease massive contaminations, several countries, such as France, have implemented containment measures.2,3 Poison control centres are—perhaps unexpectedly—being involved too in the COVID-19 outbreak as they are observing a change in the typology of the calls they receive, which is directly related to containment measures.
Topics & Concepts
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)MedicineBetacoronavirusContainment (computer programming)Period (music)Medical emergencyVirologyEmergency medicineEnvironmental healthOutbreakDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)Computer sciencePhysicsProgramming languageAcousticsPathologyCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesInfection Control and VentilationCOVID-19 and Mental Health