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No Detectable Lead Poisoning in Flint After All | National ReviewThe 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/