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the comments on this tweet are really disturbing. lead contamination is still a problem, and it’s being ignored.
by sul_tasto 5y ago
the comments on this tweet are really disturbing. lead contamination is still a problem, and it’s being ignored.
- thinkcontext 5y agoAn Update on Childhood Lead Poisoning (2017) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645046/ > As many as 500,000 US children (2.5%) under 6 years have BLLs ≥5 µg/dL. Each lead-exposed child costs an estimated $5600 in medical and special educational services.7 Lead exposure-related cognitive impairments cost an estimated $50.9 billion annually in lost US economic productivity.6