Authored by Sarah Frostenson and Sarah Kliff – April 6, 2016
Vox Headlines: The risk of lead poisoning isn’t just in Flint. So we mapped the risk in every neighborhood in America.
Neighborhoods where kids face the highest risk of lead poisoning exist all across America.
The trouble is that exposure risk is surprisingly difficult estimate, due to a variety of state-by-state differences in reporting standards. So we worked with epidemiologists in Washington state to estimate risk levels in every geographic area in America.