MAJOR STORY receiving little coverage: Like in Flint & so many other communities, federal agencies which found in 2011 residents—and children—in East Chicago, IN weren't at risk for lead poisoning (which media simply regurgitated)...WERE WRONGhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-east-chicago-lead-misleading-study-20180816-story.html# …
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The Center for Disease Control report in 2011 found that “breathing the air, drinking tap water or playing in soil in neighborhoods near the USS Lead Site is not expected to harm people’s health." But LIKE IN FLINT & SO MANY OTHER CITIES, the actual study was either...
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cherry picked or too broad. "Federal health officials based their flawed 2011 assessment of East Chicago on lead poisoning rates throughout the city rather than data from specific neighborhoods targeted by the EPA’s Superfund program for highly contaminated industrial sites."
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As a result of CDC looking across the city rather than zeroing in on the West Calumet Complex, which was a government housing complex for poor black residents BUILT ON TOP OF A LEAD SMELTER..."erroneous or misleading conclusions"...
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in the 2011 report said things like “declining blood lead levels in small children appear to confirm that they are no longer exposed to lead from any source.” But the actual findings of children's blood lead levels in the West Calumet Complex from 2005-2015....
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"more than 27 percent of West Calumet children ages 5 and younger who were tested between 2005 and 2015 had lead levels at or above 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood, the CDC’s current threshold for medical intervention and home inspections."
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These findings is why I always preach in my reporting....government agencies that produce data and numbers are now HOLY ENTITIES never to be questioned, scrutinized, or ACCUSED OR LYING OR DISTORTING. Most government studies...including environmental are meant to downplay risks
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