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No Detectable Lead Poisoning in Flint After All
« on: July 25, 2018, 04:19:30 pm »
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No Detectable Lead Poisoning in Flint After All | National Review

The city’s kids made photogenic victims, but thankfully the scare was overblown.

The numbers are in on the lead contamination of Flint, Michigan’s water in 2014–15, and it’s time for a sigh of relief. Medically speaking, the lead in the water turned out to be a non-event.

The increase in lead content in children’s blood after the water debacle was small. Tiny, in fact. How tiny? It was basically statistical noise: 0.11 micrograms per deciliter, which is within the range of normal fluctuation. Two experts explain in the New York Times:

Read more at: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/flint-michigan-water-no-lead-poisoning/
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