James Snowden on X: "Incredible progress on lead exposure in Adjara, Georgia -- blood lead levels in pregnant women cut in half after offering complementary testing. That's 125,000 kids a year who'll grow up with a much lower risk of cognitive harm https://t.co/olyPGuO238" / X

Incredible progress on lead exposure in Adjara, Georgia -- blood lead levels in pregnant women cut in half after offering complementary testing. That's 125,000 kids a year who'll grow up with a much lower risk of cognitive harm

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James Snowden

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What’s the evidence that the decline was because of the testing? Isn’t this around the same time as they got lead out of spices in Georgia?

yeah good point. causality seems pretty unclear and i think quite a few things were happening around then (the MICS finding high BLLs was in 2019)

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