Abby and Dan Published an Article on COVID-19 and Lead Exposure!

Abby and Dan published an article comparing and contrasting COVID-19 and lead exposure in the online magazine Toxic News. By considering the dimensions of testing, racialized vulnerability, workplace exposures, and individualized protection, the manifestation of the two seemingly disparate health challenges may not be so dissimilar after all:

“The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare many enduring problems in American society. While we hope that the pandemic will come to a rapid conclusion, we will continue to contend with these problems as they manifest in other health threats, such as lead pollution. We hope that the sobering lessons of COVID-19 will improve our efforts to create safer environments for all.”

You can read the full article here, as well as its press release from RPI here.

We selected a header image for the article that was taken by David Brodbeck and shared under a Creative Commons license:

Through our publication in Toxic News, we encountered an earlier article written by Daniel Renfrew on lead contamination in Uruguay that made an impression on us, particularly an image of graffiti shared in the article:

“Today our children are poisoned with factory lead, tomorrow with police lead.”