April 28, 2021
By Paul Egan
Stebbins, 22, of Mount Morris, is visibly pregnant and said she had not thought about any potential risk until later when her mother raised the issue.
Ms. Stebbins is not supposed to have to worry about being exposed or having her unborn child exposed to radiation. She is not a physician. Ms. Stebbins is supposed to be protected from GROSS MALPRACTICE.
First, Flint residents were exposed to toxic lead. (click here)
Now, there are concerns many could be exposed to harmful radiation through bone scans as they seek to document their exposure to lead and secure their shares of a $641.25 million settlement of civil lawsuits arising from the Flint water catastrophe.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the Flint pediatrician who helped expose the 2014 lead poisoning of the city's drinking water supply, is among those raising concerns about the use in Flint — through arrangements made by plaintiff attorneys — of a portable bone scanner that its manufacturer says is not designed for use on humans....
..."It is not an approved practice by any global regulatory agency or professional body," Reynolds said. Instead, "it is being promoted by misinformed attorneys" as part of an "unauthorized/unsupervised research project, masquerading as an accepted medical procedure, as a condition for compensation to claimants."...
This isn't misinformation. It is however gross legal malpractice.
National Research Council (US) Committee on Measuring Lead in Critical Populations.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1993.
The purpose of this chapter (click here) is to discuss analytic methods to assess exposure to lead in sensitive populations. The toxic effects of lead are primarily biochemical, but rapidly expanding chemical research databases indicate that lead has adverse effects on multiple organ systems especially in infants and children. The early evidence of exposure, expressed by the age of 6–12 months, shows up in prenatal or postnatal blood as lead concentrations that are common in the general population and that until recently were not considered detrimental to human health (Bellinger et al., 1987,1991a; Dietrich et al., 1987a; McMichael et al., 1988). As public-health concerns are expressed about low-dose exposures (Bellinger et al., 1991a,1987; Dietrich et al., 1987a; McMichael et al., 1988; Landrigan, 1989; Rosen et al., 1989; Mahaffey, 1992), the uses of currently applicable methods of quantitative assessment and development of newer methods will generate more precise dosimetric information on small exposures of numbers of sensitive populations....
Well, if Genesee County doesn't have the vaccine for the public, what good is a strategy?
23 April 2021
By Jiquanda Johnson
Nearly a dozen people sit in on a Zoom call (click here) on a Wednesday afternoon for what they call a “publications” meeting – one similar to many others held daily in Flint, Michigan, as community partners collaborate for the sake of public health.
In essence, it’s a meeting bringing organizations together to help strategize on how to get the word out about Covid-19 vaccinations.
Like the rest of Michigan, Flint is seeing steep increases in Covid-19 numbers.
“My city is on fire. Covid-19 is on fire,” said Debra Furr-Holden, director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions (FCHES) and associate dean for public health integration at Michigan State University, as she talks about new efforts to reduce Covid numbers....
...Now the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking renewed havoc in the city as a wave of new infections struck Michigan just as much of the rest of the country seemed to be recovering. Numbers of positive cases in Flint are steadily increasing and the pandemic has not made it easy to get information out to a community struggling with various communication gaps. It is a fresh crisis, but it is also one that multiple local activists and community leaders are seeking to combat....
