As death toll of 9/11 responders nears 1,000, pols want autopsy standards to pinpoint causes (click title to entry - thank you)
Thursday, November 11th 2010, 4:00 AM
WASHINGTON - The staggering death toll for Ground Zero responders has soared past 916 - and still no one knows what really killed them.
Now, nine years after the terror attacks, doctors and some New York lawmakers are urging the federal Department of Health and Human Services to draft autopsy protocols to pinpoint 9/11-related fatalities, the Daily News has learned.
Astonishingly, there are no written standards to help doctors diagnose post-9/11 deaths, leaving a void that's wreaked enormous emotional pain and conflict on survivors....
The USA Senate is incapable of providing important health care for the responders of September 11, 2001. The problem is that nine year later the death toll to those events are still climbing. I don't see ANY difference between the people that died on 'the day' of violence or the people that died years later 'in response' to the violence.
The death toll to the responders are a full third of the deaths of the victims that occurred on September 11, 2010. The suvivors to this tragedy were provided with vast support. There may still be lawsuits by some of the surviving families, but, for the most part the survivors received compensation for their loss.
The Obama Administration needs to consider a dual approach to the lingering 'death toll' from September 11th. They should tackle the problem of performing forensics to determine the exact pollutants that are causing the deaths of persons nine years later. For this many people to die of expose to a collapsed sky-scraper complex is alarming.
The rubble from the collapsed World Trade Towers burned for a very, very long time after the collapse. In that is the reality there was literally a burning landfill at the site which exposed workers to airborne pollutants that were also 'hot.' The 'particulates' in the air must have been as much gaseous as well as microscopic as the smoltering continued.
It is up to the current Labor Secretary and EPA Secretary to come to the aid of these people. It is also up to the Obama Justice Department and possibly the President himself to determine how the survivors to the responders can receive compensation no different than the victimx families.
I have a great deal of confidence the Obama Administration and his cabinet can obtain the best resolve to this American tragedy and perhaps next year, all the victims, including the responders, will have some resolve to their losses.
From a grateful nation, Mr. President.
WASHINGTON - The staggering death toll for Ground Zero responders has soared past 916 - and still no one knows what really killed them.
Now, nine years after the terror attacks, doctors and some New York lawmakers are urging the federal Department of Health and Human Services to draft autopsy protocols to pinpoint 9/11-related fatalities, the Daily News has learned.
Astonishingly, there are no written standards to help doctors diagnose post-9/11 deaths, leaving a void that's wreaked enormous emotional pain and conflict on survivors....
The USA Senate is incapable of providing important health care for the responders of September 11, 2001. The problem is that nine year later the death toll to those events are still climbing. I don't see ANY difference between the people that died on 'the day' of violence or the people that died years later 'in response' to the violence.
The death toll to the responders are a full third of the deaths of the victims that occurred on September 11, 2010. The suvivors to this tragedy were provided with vast support. There may still be lawsuits by some of the surviving families, but, for the most part the survivors received compensation for their loss.
The Obama Administration needs to consider a dual approach to the lingering 'death toll' from September 11th. They should tackle the problem of performing forensics to determine the exact pollutants that are causing the deaths of persons nine years later. For this many people to die of expose to a collapsed sky-scraper complex is alarming.
The rubble from the collapsed World Trade Towers burned for a very, very long time after the collapse. In that is the reality there was literally a burning landfill at the site which exposed workers to airborne pollutants that were also 'hot.' The 'particulates' in the air must have been as much gaseous as well as microscopic as the smoltering continued.
It is up to the current Labor Secretary and EPA Secretary to come to the aid of these people. It is also up to the Obama Justice Department and possibly the President himself to determine how the survivors to the responders can receive compensation no different than the victimx families.
I have a great deal of confidence the Obama Administration and his cabinet can obtain the best resolve to this American tragedy and perhaps next year, all the victims, including the responders, will have some resolve to their losses.
From a grateful nation, Mr. President.
