There was Some Brush-off of Findings at First. How did you Employ Science to Force Some Attention?
The first task was for me to geo-code where the kids lived coupled with their blood levels. In Flint, our ZIP codes were designed in the '30s or '40s, basically when there wasn't anything outside of Flint. As the region grew, we have these ZIP codes that don't correlate with the city limits. With the actual boundaries of the water, we were able to…find the distinction between Flint kids and non-Flint kids. I knew a lot of these neighborhoods were particularly socioeconomically distressed. It was troublesome. In neighborhoods within the city of Flint that were still relatively advantaged, there was a lower rate.
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