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Snyder must act on Flint lead crisis

September 27, 2015 | Detroit Free Press

It’s hard to understand the resounding yawn that seems to have emanated from the governor’s office, following news that an increasing percentage of Flint kids have been lead poisoned after a switch in the city’s water supply.

A spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services sent a Free Press data analyst a chart she claimed would refute a report issued by a Hurley Medical Center researcher, who found that since the city started pumping water from the Flint River last April, the percentage of Flint kids with elevated blood-lead levels has more than doubled in some ZIP codes. [...]

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Snyder must act on Flint lead crisis