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Trauma after trauma : Scars from Flint s water crisis shake city s faith in Covid vaccine
Erin Einhorn
January 12, 2021, 8:47 AM
DETROIT In the weeks since the arrival of the first Covid-19 vaccines, the Rev. Dr. Sarah Bailey has been fielding calls from friends and neighbors in Flint.
Callers ask about the new vaccines side effects, said Bailey, who runs a faith-based health awareness organization called Bridges Into the Future.
They wonder whether the messenger RNA or mRNA vaccines can change a person s DNA, she said. They say, Ooh, can I catch Covid from it?
Bailey, an elder at Flint’s Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International and the vice chair of a local network called Community-Based Organization Partners, reassures them. The vaccine won t give them the virus and it won t affect their DNA, she tells them, just as all major medical authorities have said based on extensive testing. She walks them through the science behind the vaccines.
US election: Donald Trump s fraud claims died in court, but stolen election myth lives on
27 Dec, 2020 12:40 AM
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US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC. Photo / Oliver Contreras, The New York Times
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC. Photo / Oliver Contreras, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Jim Rutenberg, Nick Corasaniti and Alan Feuer US President Donald Trump s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the past seven weeks the most aggressive promotion of voter fraud in American history failed to get any traction in
Print article WASHINGTON - For the first time in three decades, the federal government on Tuesday overhauled a rule aimed at reducing lead in drinking water across the country - a long-standing scourge made worse by the nation’s weathered and crumbling infrastructure. The Environmental Protection Agency’s lead and copper rule, widely criticized as complicated, poorly enforced and too weak to protect the health of many Americans, has not been revised since 1991, when George H.W. Bush was president. The 409-page updated version will for the first time require water utilities to test for lead at schools and child-care facilities and establish a new “trigger level” for contamination at which systems must review their water treatment procedures and consult with state regulators on potential improvements.
Federal lead-pipe rule overhauled for first time in decades
Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post
Dec. 22, 2020
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1of3A woman gazes out her window as bottled water is loaded into the back seat of her car at a water distribution site at Greater Holy Temple in Flint, Mich., on Thursday, December 20, 2018. In 2014, the drinking water in Flint was contaminated with lead, leading to a multiyear public health crisis.Washington Post photo by Brittany GreesonShow MoreShow Less
2of3View of the Flint river as it flows through downtown Flint, Mich., Feb. 29, 2016. The City of Flint, through a series of maneuvers, switched the source of drinking water in 2014 from Detroit to the Flint River. But officials failed to use corrosion inhibitors, which caused lead from aging pipes to leach into the water supply. As many as 100,000 residents were exposed to high levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin.Washington Post photo by Linda DavidsonShow MoreShow