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CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 week ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44698184

The fruit pouches: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/toxic-toddler-fruit-pouches-extremely-high-lead-levels-sicken-7-in-5-states/

Amid the brutal cuts across the federal government under the Trump administration, perhaps one of the most gutting is the loss of experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who respond to lead poisoning in children.

On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's reduction in force, according to NPR. The staff included epidemiologists, statisticians, and advisors who specialized in lead exposures and responses.

The cuts were immediately consequential to health officials in Milwaukee, who are currently dealing with a lead exposure crisis in public schools. Six schools have had to close, displacing 1,800 students. > In April, the city requested help from the CDC's lead experts, but the request was denied—there was no one left to help.

In a Congressional hearing this week, US health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told lawmakers, "We have a team in Milwaukee."

But Milwaukee Health Commissioner Mike Totoraitis told NPR that this is false. "There is no team in Milwaukee," he said. "We had a single [federal] staff person come to Milwaukee for a brief period to help validate a machine, but that was separate from the formal request that we had for a small team to actually come to Milwaukee for our Milwaukee Public Schools investigation and ongoing support there."

Kennedy has also previously told lawmakers that lead experts at the CDC who were terminated would be rehired. But that statement was also false. The health department's own communications team told ABC that the lead experts would not be reinstated.

While Milwaukee continues to struggle, a Stat report Friday hints at losses yet to come. Looking back at the national scandal of lead-contaminated apple-sauce pouches, Stat reported that at least six of the CDC scientists and experts who worked on that nationwide poisoning event are gone.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Under Trump, the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For those who don't know: Lower-grade, steady lead poisoning stunts emotional and intellectual development. So it results in reactionary people with limited critical thinking skills and resentment towards science and academia.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago

It seems many kinds of brain damage lead to right-wing politics.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So they’re gonna replace fluoride with lead?

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

New young republicans recruitment line…

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Pfft...

These children are already born. They no longer require protections.

The white ones either make it on their own or are lucky enough to be born to wealth and are, therefore, deemed worthy (or they don't and aren't worthy) and the non-white ones should be left to die or deported if they should continue to live.

Thanks to Mafia Don Mangolini and Extremist so-called "Christians" throughout the country. 🤷‍♂️ 🤡 🖕 🖕

[–] AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf 34 points 1 week ago

Hey all of you guys who stayed home. This is on you.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shithole country

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

America is a third world country wearing the mask of a first world country.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

We will be feeling the effects of this presidency for the next 100 years. I can only hope there is a God that will put Trump and his cronies in the farthest reaches of hell to suffer for eternity.

Future presidents will be paying reparations to millions of families for the trauma that Trump has caused.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

"Make America Healthy Again™"

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Lead poisoning is one of the things that did in the city of Rome as be the empire by extension…