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CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

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Re: CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

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Why didnt CDC report the symptoms of their own employees?

Is it interesting or relevant? I have similar symptoms right now; it's called "what you get when you have a cold." No causality, nothing to report.

I don't know, they told healthy 20 year olds to take multiple shots of largely untested injections to avoid those same symptoms, so

Re: CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

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Is it interesting or relevant? I have similar symptoms right now; it's called "what you get when you have a cold." No causality, nothing to report.

I don't know, they told healthy 20 year olds to take multiple shots of largely untested injections to avoid those same symptoms, so

Can you clarify your meaning?

Re: CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

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Yes, but it's not exactly the same situation. "The EPA’s equipment isn’t able to detect lower levels of Butyl Acrylate that can still pose a threat to human health." In Chernobyl, the Soviets had the opposite problem: the maximum concentration their standard equipment could read was far below the real level.

that's a far better problem to have because you'll at least have the indication that you are maxing out your equipment

Unfortunately this is not the case with many Geiger counters, especially older ones. Geiger-Muller (GM) tubes detect radiation by measuring ionization events. When a high energy particle passes through the tube, it leaves a little trail through which electricity can flow, but only for a moment — this temporary flow of electricity is amplified and fed into the detection circuit, and it also what is used to generate the typical clicking noise. The Geiger counter is basically an edge detector + summing circuit with decay.

When a GM tube is overloaded, the particles create too many overlapping trails, and the tube cannot stop conducting electricity. This continuous flow of electricity does not trigger the edge detector, so it thinks the level of radiation is zero. Some modern equipment has an alarm for this condition.

Re: CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

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Why didnt CDC report the symptoms of their own employees?

Is it interesting or relevant? I have similar symptoms right now; it's called "what you get when you have a cold." No causality, nothing to report.

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