Morning Mix In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/15/toxic-water-soaring-lead-levels-in-childrens-blood-create-state-of-emergency-in-flint-mich/?utm_term=.683a29647238

 

For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned?

To find out, all it takes is a ####### of the finger, a small letting of blood. If tests come back positive, the potentially severe consequences are far more difficult to discern.

That’s how lead works. It leaves its mark quietly, with a virtually invisible trail. But years later, when a child shows signs of a learning disability or behavioral issues, lead’s prior presence in the bloodstream suddenly becomes inescapable.

According to the World Health Organization, “lead affects children’s brain development resulting in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment. Lead exposure also causes anemia, hypertension, renal impairment, immunotoxicity and toxicity to the reproductive organs. The neurological and behavioral effects of lead are believed to be irreversible.”

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The Hurley Medical Center, in Flint, released a study in September that confirmed what many Flint parents had feared for over a year: The proportion of infants and children with above-average levels of lead in their blood has nearly doubled since the city switched from the Detroit water system to using the Flint River as its water source, in 2014.

The crisis reached a nadir Monday night, when Flint Mayor Karen Weaver declared a state of emergency.

“The City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster,” Weaver said in a declaratory statement.

The controversial case over dangerous lead in water in a Michigan city
View Photos    Anger over high levels of lead in the water in Flint has led the mayor to declare a state of emergency.
The mayor — elected after her predecessor, Dayne Walling, experienced fallout from his administration’s handling of the water problems — said in the statement that she was seeking support from the federal government to deal with the “irreversible” effects of lead exposure on the city’s children. Weaver thinks that these health consequences will lead to a greater need for special education and mental health services, as well as developments in the juvenile justice system.

“Do we meet the criteria [for a disaster area]? I don’t know,” she told Michigan Live. But Weaver doesn’t think the city can receive the help it needs without alerting federal officials to the urgency of the matter.

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To those living in Flint, the announcement may feel as if it has been a long time coming.

Almost immediately after the city started drawing from the Flint River in April 2014, residents began complaining about the water, which they said was cloudy in appearance and emitted a foul odor.

Since then, complications from the water coming from the Flint River have only piled up. Although city and state officials initially denied that the water was unsafe, the state issued a notice informing Flint residents that their water contained unlawful levels of trihalomethanes, a chlorine byproduct linked to cancer and other diseases.

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Hmm, fake news?

 

FLINT, MI -- Blood lead levels in Flint children ages 5 and younger hit an all-time low in 2016, according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Researchers say results of the study suggest that efforts to abate the city's water crisis are working.

Researchers analyzed lead concentrations of 15,817 blood samples from children over an 11-year period. They found that between 2006 and 2016, the percentage of children with blood lead levels over five micrograms per deciliter dropped from 11.8 percent to 3.2 percent.

Blood lead levels dropped from 2.33 micrograms per deciliter in 2006, to 1.15 micrograms per deciliter in 2016. The mean blood lead level during the height of the water crisis in 2015 was 1.3, up from 1.19 in the previous year.

 

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2018/03/study_shows_blood_levels_in_fl.html

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The MLine Media Group seems nefarious 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=261274779

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1 minute ago, Jacque67 said:

The MLine Media Group seems nefarious 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=261274779

Actually, it is MLive, and has its roots in Booth Newspapers.  I realize that papers that exist in the middle of the country are not elite enough for some, but we cannot count on the likes of the LATimes, NYTimes or WaPo to cover local issues.

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2 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Actually, it is MLive, and has its roots in Booth Newspapers.  I realize that papers that exist in the middle of the country are not elite enough for some, but we cannot count on the likes of the LATimes, NYTimes or WaPo to cover local issues.

Yeah, so no list of ownership. An online affair. Probably doesn't have lawyers to double check every article. Sounds legit. I know which one I'd trust.

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1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

Yeah, so no list of ownership. An online affair. Probably doesn't have lawyers to double check every article. Sounds legit. I know which one I'd trust.

You may not like the media outlet, but harder to refute the research article.

 

http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(17)31758-4/fulltext

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8 minutes ago, Neonred said:

You may not like the media outlet, but harder to refute the research article.

 

http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(17)31758-4/fulltext

Who's  paying for that research? Names? Or are they as nefarious as the MLine Media Group.

 

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13 minutes ago, Neonred said:

You may not like the media outlet, but harder to refute the research article.

 

http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(17)31758-4/fulltext

Actually it's easy. Who financed this? Soros? the Kochs?

 

the media outlet is dodgy . WaPo has gazillion of lawyers double checking facts. 

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13 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Who's  paying for that research? Names? Or are they as nefarious as the MLine Media Group.

 

Well, if you actually looked at the article it gave you the info:

 

Supported by the National Institutes of Health grant numbers U01 HL101794 , U01 HL101456 , U01 HL101798 , U01 HL101813 , U01 HL101465 , U01 HL101800 , and 5RO1 HL105702 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act to U01 HL101794 . C.B., J.T., and A.Z. are employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and have no competing financial interests nor other conflicts of interest. The NIH, as an employment agency, had no role in (1) the study design; (2) the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; (3) the writing of the report; and (4) the decision to submit the paper for publication. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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13 minutes ago, Neonred said:

Well, if you actually looked at the article it gave you the info:

 

Supported by the National Institutes of Health grant numbers U01 HL101794 , U01 HL101456 , U01 HL101798 , U01 HL101813 , U01 HL101465 , U01 HL101800 , and 5RO1 HL105702 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act to U01 HL101794 . C.B., J.T., and A.Z. are employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and have no competing financial interests nor other conflicts of interest. The NIH, as an employment agency, had no role in (1) the study design; (2) the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; (3) the writing of the report; and (4) the decision to submit the paper for publication. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

That would be too difficult.

28 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Who's  paying for that research? Names? Or are they as nefarious as the MLine Media Group.

 

Did you read the article?

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14 minutes ago, Neonred said:

Well, if you actually looked at the article it gave you the info:

 

Supported by the National Institutes of Health grant numbers U01 HL101794 , U01 HL101456 , U01 HL101798 , U01 HL101813 , U01 HL101465 , U01 HL101800 , and 5RO1 HL105702 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act to U01 HL101794 . C.B., J.T., and A.Z. are employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and have no competing financial interests nor other conflicts of interest. The NIH, as an employment agency, had no role in (1) the study design; (2) the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; (3) the writing of the report; and (4) the decision to submit the paper for publication. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

The authors declare. How sweet. Would be interested to see how that stands up in court. No idea about the world of dentistry, but I personally know pharmaceutical companies fund such research in the medical world. Lots of grants.

2 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

That would be too difficult.

Did you read the article?

Mysterious grants....

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4 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

The authors declare. How sweet. Would be interested to see how that stands up in court. No idea about the world of dentistry, but I personally know pharmaceutical companies fund such research in the medical world. Lots of grants.

Mysterious grants....

So the numbers are fudged for political gain, and we must believe everything the left wing mainstream media a.k.a. Jeff Bezos’s WaPo prints.  If you can refute the study than please do.

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4 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

So the numbers are fudged for political gain, and we must believe everything the left wing mainstream media a.k.a. Jeff Bezos’s WaPo prints.  If you can refute the study than please do.

You're  jealous of Bezos who gets his lawyers to double triple check everything .

 

Hear of lobbyists? 

 

Have a great Easter.

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Just now, Jacque67 said:

You're  jealous of Bezos who gets his lawyers to double triple check everything .

 

Hear of lobbyists? 

 

Have a great Easter.

So nothing?  Figures.

 

As to double and triple checking lawyers, are they checking up on all those anonymous sources and verifying the things they say?  It has nothing to do with jealousy, Bezos made his money fair and square to my knowledge, but it does have something to do with all the biased spin we find in all these august sources.

 

 

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How would a Lawyer know a scientific fact?