New York state law mandates that every child through the age of 6 must be regularly screened for lead exposure and, depending on how much lead a child is exposed to, New York City must provide treatment and cut off the source of exposure.
In place of the old system, the CDC adopted a new, epidemiological approach that focuses on identifying the children most at risk. To do that, the agency turned to one the largest, longest-running collections of health data in the country: the National Health & Nutritional Examination Survey . It includes the blood-lead test results of thousands of American children.
Nationally — despite government blunders like Flint, Michigan, Newark, New Jersey, and other hotspots, such as Buffalo, New York — the overall decline from perilously-high lead levels in past decades is widely seen as a public health success story. To determine how the city’s caseloads could be affected, Gothamist obtained data via a Freedom Of Information Law request on the number of children who tested between the new guidance level of 3.5 micrograms and the city’s old action level of 5 micrograms.
But the health department said it expects the change in policy to increase caseloads by 50%, suggesting that 2021 totals likely stood at roughly 3,400 children. For families with children who qualify under the expanded action level, New York City’s adoption of the CDC’s new guidance means a greater access to resources. The health department’s lead poisoning and prevention program assigns nurses to follow up on cases of lead exposure until a child’s lead levels go down. It also conducts free home inspections for lead paint using specialized X-ray fluorescence technology that’s costly when paid out of pocket.
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