Flint’s lead-contaminated water caused hundreds of excess fetal deaths and miscarriages

Evidence

A 2017 report exposed “hundreds of excess deaths” of fetuses in Flint, Michigan, between 2013 and 2015 after the city switched to lead-poisoned Flint River water. Health economists Daniel Grossman and David Slusky found that between 218 and 276 more children should have been born, and that these “missing children” succumbed to fetal death and miscarriages caused by waterborne lead exposure — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 741

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 741
• XREF: connects to: Extremely tiny PCB concentrations cause permanent fetal brain and IQ damage — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 550; Lead poisoning costs the US billions of dollars and millions of IQ points yearly — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 37