- 5 days ago
Category
✨
PeopleTranscript
00:00Hey guys, Vice President J.D. Vance here, and I want to take you back to something that happened early on when I was a United States Senator.
00:06There was a terrible train crash, and then there was a controlled burn of toxic chemicals that went into the atmosphere in East Palestine, Ohio, a little town in the northeastern corner of the state of Ohio.
00:17What happened then is that people got very worried, and I've been to East Palestine a number of times, and they're very worried about what are the long-term impacts of these chemicals in the water, in the air?
00:30What effect does it have on their kids and grandkids after five years, 10 years, 15 years of exposure?
00:35And the crazy thing is, number one, we didn't have a good answer to that question.
00:40Science had never actually tried to understand what the long-term exposure of these trace chemicals would do to people.
00:46And the second crazy thing is that as much as I tried as a United States Senator to work with the Biden administration,
00:52they refused to do anything to actually study the effects of these long-term exposures on the people of East Palestine.
01:00Well, now we have a new president and a great new Secretary of Health and Human Services, and he's got an incredible announcement.
01:06We're finally going to study the effects on these chemicals and finally get to the bottom of what effect this terrible train crash
01:12and the ensuing consequences had on the people of East Palestine.
01:16I want to start by thanking my friend, Vice President J.D. Vance, for his continued and persistent interest in this issue,
01:24which many Americans have already forgotten.
01:28On February 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern Freight derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.
01:34A wreck and fall of 38 cars carrying hazardous chemicals, which ignited and then spread in these prolonged fires.
01:42The East Palestine community members immediately began experiencing a range of initial health symptoms,
01:49including headaches and respiratory and the skin and eye irritations,
01:53prompting concerns about the broader long-term impacts on maternal and child health.
01:59At the urging of Vice President, the National Institute of Health under my direction has launched a five-year,
02:07$10 million research initiative to address health outcomes stemming from this calamity.
02:14This is the first large-scale, coordinated, multi-year federal study focused specifically on the long-term health impacts
02:21of the East Palestine disaster.
02:25The program will support robust, community-engaged epidemiological research
02:30to understand the impacts of exposures on short- and long-term injuries.
02:35It will also support public health tracking and surveillance of the community's health conditions
02:40to help us make informed health care choices and take appropriate preventative measures.
02:47I want to thank Vice President Vance for not forgetting about the people of East Palestine
02:53for making this an important issue and for allowing us to launch this important initiative.
02:59This is a big announcement, guys. I'm very, very excited about it.
03:02I am absolutely delighted to make this announcement today,
03:05and I want to thank Vice President Vance and Secretary Kennedy for staying on this issue.
03:09The purpose and goal of the NIH, the mission, is to advance the health and well-being of the American people,
03:15and this is a concrete way that we're going to do that.
03:17The NIH is working to ensure that the people of East Palestine and the surrounding communities
03:21are listened to, cared for, and they get the answers they deserve.
03:24Today, the NIH has established a program to coordinate health-related research
03:28with public health department needs and clinical practice to respond to the health effects of the derailment.
03:33The train was carrying hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride, butylacrylate, ethylene glycol, and benzene residue,
03:40and community members have experienced a range of health issues following the incident.
03:43The NIH's multidisciplinary research program will focus on public health tracking and surveillance
03:47of the community's health conditions to support health care decisions and preventative measures.
03:52Importantly, the program will be community-led.
03:54It will emphasize extensive, well-coordinated communications among researchers, study participants,
03:58community stakeholders, and health care providers,
04:01and others to provide a comprehensive approach to address the affected communities' health concerns.
04:05The NIH intends to allocate up to $10 million across five years.
04:09The deadline to submit proposals is July 21, and we anticipate starting research this fall.
04:13Thank you so much, and so proud to be working on this effort with you guys.
04:16Thank you, guys.
04:17I want to thank the president for making this possible,
04:19and thank these two guys for their hard work to actually implement this.
04:23This is a very big day, not just for the people of East Palestine,
04:25but for anybody who wants to understand the connection between the chemicals that we use every day
04:31and the effects that it has on people's health.
04:34No one has tried to do this in this particular way.
04:37I think it's going to benefit millions of Americans.
04:39We're going to know more than we knew because of the hard work of the guys standing next to me.
Recommended
1:48
|
Up next
1:13
1:36
2:00
1:33
1:11
1:39
1:44
2:52
1:25
1:36
1:54
1:10
1:03
1:29
2:18
2:25
1:47
2:12
1:00
9:35
5:30
2:17
1:26