Toxic Lead Robs 🧠 Power

A Lead Awareness and Testing Campaign created in 2015 to help end lead poisoning in Baltimore.

[Toxic Lead Robs 🧠 Power @BmoreLEADfree]

It's impossible to talk about crime and violence in Baltimore without talking about the thousands of youth that have been hurt by the neurotoxin of lead.

Further, nearly all victims had no access to medical, behavioral, or nutritional therapies.
https://t.co/kM1D2EUL6J

[Green & Healthy Homes Initiative @HealthyHousing]

Discriminatory housing policies place undue burden on our most vulnerable. @HealthyHousing strongly supports the efforts of @POTUS + @HUDgov to acknowledge + rewrite this narrative. We are ready + willing to support efforts to ensure safe, accessible + affordable housing for all.

[Green & Healthy Homes Initiative @HealthyHousing]

Don’t miss GHHI’s 2020 Virtual Lead Symposium – July session kicks off at 4P ET today!

For more information and to register, visit: https://t.co/OlZ6URkkla #HealthyHousing #NoSafeLevel

[Toxic Lead Robs 🧠 Power @BmoreLEADfree]

This is today! What a great lineup of amazing advocates!

[Green & Healthy Homes Initiative @HealthyHousing]

GHHI's 2020 Virtual Lead Symposium is excited to confirm the addition of two amazing speakers for our July panels! Join us 07/22 to hear from Talib Horne of @AECFNews, @emilyabenfer of @WFULawSchool, and other healthy housing experts!

To register: https://t.co/OlZ6URkkla

[Green & Healthy Homes Initiative @HealthyHousing]

GHHI's 2020 Virtual Lead Symposium is excited to confirm the addition of two amazing speakers for our July panels! Join us 07/22 to hear from Talib Horne of @AECFNews, @emilyabenfer of @WFULawSchool, and other healthy housing experts!

To register: https://t.co/OlZ6URkkla

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Americans are constantly worried about the power of government. The bigger danger is that we can’t get even basic things done - roads, bridges, masks, cotton swabs, voting, processing unemployment benefits, sending citizens money during a crisis.

[BarbaraSamuels @BSamuels72]

Truth. Not just red states either. Look at #Maryland near the bottom w/ <7% of unemployed now getting benefits. Lets be honest: Mid-class whites are being forced to confront a safety net designed on the racist assumption that most applicants are cheaters trying to avoid work.

[Brian Rahmer @brianrahmer]

“It is therefore important to ensure a distribution of power throughout the public sphere, so that a wide-range of everyday political and economic decisions, policies, and structures are in the hands of communities throughout the national society.” https://t.co/Bv1ld7Jju8

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Democrats in Congress have introduced an emergency universal basic income solution for the pandemic- which would provide Americans 2k a month to quarantine- saving thousands of lives.
It’s the only viable solution- as radical as it may sound. The only one that keeps people alive.

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Hi, ER Doc here.

Just to be crystal clear we still do NOT have enough COVID tests for our symptomatic patients let alone to test everyone who wants one.

[Leana Wen, M.D. @DrLeanaWen]

Antibody testing in Santa Clara County, CA reveals total #covid19 cases = 50-85 times higher than # of documented infections.

If this is true, then our estimates are way off. There could be far more asymptomatic carriers.

We need much testing!

https://t.co/MAp7bg47Ke

[Laudan Aron @laudyaron]

“COVID is just unmasking the deep disinvestment in our communities, the historical injustices and the impact of residential segregation... This is the time to name racism as the cause of all of those things.” #SDoH
https://t.co/WI7vk4IFLQ

[Nick J. Mosby @Nick_Mosby]

@riccimike Mike, I have asked multiple sources about the demographic breakdown by race of known #COVID19 cases and deaths. I have seen county, age, and sex but not race. Can you include race in your breakdown moving forward?

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

Thank you @Slate and especially @juliacraven for giving me the platform to discuss what #COVID19 means for Black Americans and how the pandemic will reinforce racialized health disparities.

https://t.co/y8rl4PERKZ

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

"Congress should also pass a relief package for people who’ve suffered from the de jure and de facto social distancing of racial segregation, which still sets African Americans apart from white people today on both a spatial and economic basis." https://t.co/BemEG23FzS

[Dr. Mona @MonaHannaA]

Just like how structural inequality & historic racism perpetuated & exacerbated the #FlintWaterCrisis, #COVID19 will be worse in Detroit and other urban areas whose people have been ignored & forgotten.

This is a crisis generations in the making.

https://t.co/oRrTTW94IJ

[Brian Rahmer @brianrahmer]

“This should not be thought of as a stimulus bill — this should be thought of as social insurance in a disaster state of the world for the most hard hit.”

#Interdependence #SDoH #PDoH https://t.co/di7MxHa22M #COVID19

[Luke Broadwater☀️ @lukebroadwater]

This is terrible news. I worked with Jason at my former newspaper, the Baltimore Examiner, before he became a teacher.

Now he's in a medically-induced coma, likely due to COVID-19. At age 39.

This virus can affect anyone. Praying for you, Jason.

[Toxic Lead Robs 🧠 Power @BmoreLEADfree]

Cities with histories of hypersegregation are showing up as hotspots for the coronavirus outbreak.

New Orleans: formerly hypersegregated, now Category 3

New York: Category 4

Detroit: Category 5

Baltimore is a Category 5 hypersegregated city.

https://t.co/kWkSo1dvfs