LANSING KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The Director of Michigan’s Health and Human Services Department is the subject of a court hearing this week to determine if he should stand trial for involuntary manslaughter for allegedly failing to notify Flint residents they may catch Legionnaire’s disease.
There has been conflicting testimony about what Nick Lyon knew and when he knew it, and then what he did with the information. Testimony is expected to take several days.
New Data from the Flint water crisis now shows that fetal death rates increased by 58% and birth rates declined after the city switched from treated water from Detroit, to untreated water from the Flint River, in April 2014.
Daniel Grossman who co-authored the study says that means it not only effected kids and adults, but future generations.
Until now, the death rate for the Flint water crisis had stood at 12 for the Legionnaires victims that died. If these fetal deaths are included, the death toll is actually many times higher.
