Jordan Chariton interviews Eric Cozza, an East Palestine resident who, along with others, has had elevated levels of cancer-causing Vinyl Chloride detected in his urine. Cozza recorded audio of trying to get his healthcare provider to test his urine for Vinyl Chloride—a cancer-causing toxicant that was blown up in the Norfolk Southern “controlled burn” on February 6th. Eric has been suffering with nosebleeds, burning eyes, headaches, chest pain, and short term memory loss. In the audio, his nurses and doctors tell him the CDC has urged medical providers NOT TO test East Palestine residents for Vinyl Chloride.
You can’t find what you’re not looking for, and if you never test, it’s “rare” and if it’s rare, nothing needs to be done… This was the case with someone I knew in the early 2000s who died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. I was told that the CDC told the widow CJD was rare, but that they wouldn’t count this case because they don’t count cases without confirming with autopsy, and, they said, they almost never do autopsies to confirm the cases. You do the math. How rare is anything if nobody is counting it?