Right so the hospitals are open. They are not claiming being overwhelmed by lead poisoned children.
This is a blame game.
I’m sure you know better than Mill.
From NPR
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.
Oh my gosh. The city of Milwakee has had decades to remove lead form school. They are blamign the CDC because they need to blame someone.
The CDC does not handle lead removal.
Investigation screening and data management with regards to lead poisonings or lead removal?
It’s not that i know better. I know for a fact that they know better. That’s why they are crying foul. Because they need to point a finger anywhere other than themselves.
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The poisoning.
The department that was fired is called the CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.
Why would they call them for abatement?
@FreeAndClear you really need to stop interjecting facts and common sense in a TDS rant thread. How dare you!!!
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Is there a rash of kid lead poisonings in the schools? or is it just the presence of lead paint right now?
I understand what you are saying - that they want the CDC to come in and to tell them how to reduce lead poisonings.
The problem is that this portion of the crisis is only a small part of a much bigger problem - that the city of milwakee falied to timely remove lead from schools. Something they should have done decades ago.
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Yes.
Lead, a dangerous neurotoxin that can lead to development problems in children after prolonged exposure, has now been detected in at least nine public schools, and at least four students have tested positive for high lead levels in their blood. So far, no children have been hospitalized for acute lead poisoning, which can be life-threatening, but the affected kids continue to be monitored. Several buildings have been temporarily closed so workers can do a deep clean. Milwaukee has been inspecting all of its public schools built before 1978 and serving elementary school students for lead, with the goal of completing the review by September.
Normally, cities navigating such a crisis could depend on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for federal support. When the lead poisoning was first detected in January, at the tail end of the Biden administration, city health officials were immediately in contact with the CDC environmental health team, which included several of the country’s top lead poisoning experts, Milwaukee health commissioner Mike Totoraitis told me. A group of federal experts were planning a trip to the city at the end of April.
I’m not saying it. The Vox and NPR articles are.
And in fact, they were in weekly contact with the federal CDC department that was helping them with just that until they all were fired.
Swell.
Doesn’t mean Vox got anything wrong.
You are still not getting it.
The school system is inspecting schools built before 1978 in 2024
Nothing in the quote suggests a spike in lead poisonings but simply a finding of lead in the schools…
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It’s not about wrong or right. It’s about the story that’s taking a shape.
Nothing in either article shows a spike in lead poisonings just a finding of lead in schools.
Lead in the school’s drinking water? What the hell kind of school doesn’t have simple carbon filters on their children’s drinking water??
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…bam.
From the quote:
Lead, a dangerous neurotoxin that can lead to development problems in children after prolonged exposure, has now been detected in at least nine public schools, and at least four students have tested positive for high lead levels in their blood.
I’m not sure what articles you are reading.
Kids tested positive for lead which is what put the wheels in motion, including calls to the Kid Lead Poison Department…
At least Four students out of 156 schools. The word spike is right there there
Right it should have been put in motion 30 - 40 years ago.
The paint and the lead pipes have been there …
Lead is mostly injested. It is common knowledge that very young kids lick lead paint and eat paint chips because lead tastes sweet. It could also come from the water in the pipes.
They have been sitting on there schools since 1978……. But it’s now! Now it’s a problem!
And 4 students (at least) out of 156 schools isn’t a spike. It’s a Tuesday
https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/lead/data.htm
If my math is right based on the link. The state of Wisconsin had 2400 cases of elevated lead in kids in 2023. That’s about 7 per day….
By the way @tnt when a hurricane hits and if FEMA suffers issues because of the layoffs, i will be right with you on the barricades.
No, actually, it’s not. They haven’t had anyone test positive in these buildings beofre which is why it’s now an issue.
You know you can be mad at them for not finding the lead earlier, and still understand why, when the found kids poisoned with lead, they called the ‘Kids with Lead Agency’…
How many at that school?
Who did they call when they found kids with lead poison? I bet they called the federal Kids with Lead Poison Department…
