I really want to know how a major city like Milwaukee is engaging in lead paint abatement 60 years too late?
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It describes Mill. officials talking weekly with the CDC and getting guidance on how to navigate the issue until such a time as the department with expertise in lead exposure was closed, leading the city to figure out the best protocols for testing of both the kids and the site on their own.
Why do you think they would have called them if they would be of no help to them?
Because the city officials explained that Fed entity is the one cities turn to in these kinds of events. And now it’s gone.
Correct there is nothing wrong with reaching out to CDC to help with the actual poisonings but not the removal of lead
Lead in schools? In a city with 156 schools. Decades after first public lead abatement started?
This isn’t an rfk problem. This is a finger pointing problem
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It is not. Lead removal isn’t upto the CDC. The officials are blaming that entity because they have had decades to address the problem and now need to point a finger at someone anyone so that they don’t get voted out. The VOC article feeds into that garbage.
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Really?
RFK doesn’t seem to know if he has that department or not.
He told congress they had sent a team to Mill. When in fact they had not.
Not problems?
They weren’t looking for help with lead removal.
No their not.
They were in weekly contact with the CDC about testing etc… until the department was closed.
From the NPR article:
They wanted CDC expertise to help manage this crisis and had worked for months on a formal request for CDC staff support, he says.
“They were going to send that team to Milwaukee to help us with the investigation, screening, data management,” he says. Once the federal staff was all laid off, the request was formally denied, he explains, “because they didn’t have any subject matter experts within the entire CDC to support the childhood lead investigation that we were doing.”
Totoraitis says the public school lead crisis in his city hasn’t stopped, and now his local team is scrambling to figure out how to manage without the expert support from CDC.
Right all those are issues. I don’t disagree there
The actual lead paint crisis is much bigger and has nothing to do with RFK.
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Why the heck not?!?!?!
The lead paint crisis is more than just abatement, which is why, as in the past, the sity looked to the CDC for guidance from a department SET UP TO PROVIDE THAT GUIDANCE.
You are posting as if the city just called the wrong department. Like they called the Smithsonian to ask for help with a gas leak…
What else is it other than removal of lead?
Is there an epidemic of children with lead poisoning in Milwaukee? Is that cited by VOX? The local politicians?
WHEN THEY CALLED THE CDC they weren’t asking for help with abatement.
Second time:
They wanted CDC expertise to help manage this crisis and had worked for months on a formal request for CDC staff support, he says.
“They were going to send that team to Milwaukee to help us with the investigation, screening, data management,” he says. Once the federal staff was all laid off, the request was formally denied, he explains, “because they didn’t have any subject matter experts within the entire CDC to support the childhood lead investigation that we were doing.”
Totoraitis says the public school lead crisis in his city hasn’t stopped, and now his local team is scrambling to figure out how to manage without the expert support from CDC.
So this has nothing to do with the lead paint crisis? Just a specific issue of possible lead poisonings by kids?
What is the exact crisis?
They are one in the same and will require more than one response.
The only reason we want to abate lead paint is because it leads to lead poison.
My neighbor had an issue with lead paint doing a renovation. He did two things at once - he spoke to lead abatement specialists about how to clean the house and remove anything remaining. and he spoke to his doctor about how to test his family and what should be done about his kid who had high lead levels.
They are not one and the same.
Right so the first part isn’t upto the cdc. And they have had decades to remove lead paint form schools
You cannot or should not personally test for lead poisoning. It’s a blood test done by a doctor. And in case of local schools hospitals.
Schools are closed because kids have lead poison.
They will have to both figure out who is poisoned, and how bad it is, where exactly is came from (which per the articles, is what the CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was doing with them until they were ■■■■ canned) and they will have to abate the lead, which is a different task entirely.
I don’t think the Mill. Admins are going to draw the blood themselves.
They know where it came from. Lead paint in the schools
The tests are done by doctors. I agree here that if it is a crisis of actual poisonings the CDC should step in.
But the schools are closed because the local politicians screwed up and failed to remove lead paint after decades of knowing that they should have tested for it and asked dem and previous republican federal administrations for money.
Now they have a crisis and the fault lies primarily with them. Not Rfk
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