Jessica Conard, another resident, said, "We are still experiencing some acute health care impacts" after the train derailment one year ago.
"Ultimately, what we need to understand is that there are still unmet needs here in terms of medical, and the health of this community needs to come first," Conard said.
Dr. Arthur Chang, the chief medical officer in the CDC's environmental health division, confirmed to the media outlet a chemical exposure blanketed the town and persisting symptoms from residents are proof: "We may not know how to get rid of the vinyl chloride from the body, but we know how to treat those cancers." Meanwhile, shortly after the incident, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine asked the Biden administration to issue a disaster declaration after 116,000 gallons of the carcinogen vinyl chloride exploded after the train derailment.
The White House has since ignored this request while residents continue to suffer health problems.
NewsNation pointed out, "Despite calls for concern, the CDC is not testing the health of East Palestine residents or collecting samples." We have questions: Why is that? Why is the federal government ignoring the suffering in East Palestine? However, separate from the federal government, Erin Haynes, a professor at the University of Kentucky, has been tracking the health of 400 residents.
Haynes said, "Three out of four of the participants reported having at least one new health symptom," adding, "Eighty percent of the respondents reported an upper respiratory health symptom." "The main question is if these symptoms remain. And half of the residents, even in our follow-ups, are saying that their symptoms remain," she said.
Shockingly, NewsNation said, "Haynes is the only person tracking the short and long-term health effects in the community." "Unfortunately, I have not seen an organized public health response from our federal agencies," Haynes continued, noting, "The public health response was severely lacking." More from NewsNation: Americans have witnessed the Biden administration's neglect of East Palestine, prioritizing endless foreign wars and a border invasion while their own citizens suffered in what could be one of the worst chemical disasters in years.
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