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In all the pandemic coronavirus, you have probably heard about time and time that it's swiveling yourThe hand disinfectant contains at a certain level of alcohol. If you need a reminder, disease control and prevention control centers (CDC) indicate yourHand sanitizer should have at least 60% ethanol (Often labeled as ethyl alcohol) or 70% isopropanol to effectively kill coronaviruses. But ahead of the fourth of July weekend, security experts and health professionals are warning that this very essential ingredient could lead to a seriously dangerous situation if you combine with a particular independence compensation:fireworks.

"Alcohol and fire do not mix"Maureen Vogel ofNational Security Council (NSC) says CNN. "YouShould not sleep flammable elements; This is the proverbial recipe for the disaster. So, if you do your due diligence to keep your hands disinfectedandyou wantDefine celebration fireworksYou could endanger you. That's why Vogel recommends that you "keep the hands' disintegration away from the fireworks area".

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Dhaval Bhavsar, MD, Medical Director of Kansas Medical Systems UniversityBurnett Burn Center, issued a warning similar to a local NBC news company in front of the holiday weekend. "If they have a hand disinfecting on and ... [are] lighting the fireworks, I think they could have aHigh risk of having a burn injury"he said." This can be a third degree burn because alcohol is powerful and flammable. "

Dee Shelton, a fire safety educator and life with theDepartment of Greensboro Firefighters In North Carolina, published a video demonstration to show "how inflammable hands' detinctors" is. In the video (which you can look below), Shelton explains that alcohol in the disinfectant of the hand burns "clean, so it has the blue flame instead of the orange flame", which means "you do not know Maybe not even it's on fire. "

So, what can you do to stay in Covid and burns safe during this single weekend of July 4th? "If you are using a alcohol-based disinfectant, wait at least five minutes and make sure you rub your clean hands and there are no alcohol residues" before using fireworks, The Bhavsar says.

The fireworks, of course, present their own set of hazards handicapped. The annual fireworks report of the United States Security Products Commission (CPCC), which was published in June, estimates that there were 10,000Wounds related to fireworks Treated in the ERS at the national level in 2019. Seventy-five percent of theseThe wounds took place around the July quarter of Julyand Sparkers were responsible for more than these visits than any other type of fireworks.

And there is another problem that makes Covid and July 4 a risky combination. AsDonna SKODA, MS, RD, a health commissioner of Ohio, recently emphasizedAkron Beacon Journal: "You have aflammable Covering your face and turn a swirling fire around your head. You make the maths. And for more behavior to avoid this holiday weekend, checkIt's the worst place where you can go on July 4 weekend, says doctor.