Lead Poisoning: Focusing on the Fix.

Infuriating, frustrating, saddening, racism, demands for solutions—only a few of the words to describe reactions from the public health community and the public at large to the news of the lead in drinking water debacle in Flint, Michigan. As the nation increasingly turns to its public health professionals for answers, we must speak clearly and forcefully, communicate accurately based on what the science tells us, focus on securing resources needed for solutions, and then make sure that both shortand longterm fixes are really working. To do all that, we must reinvigorate and empower the public and environmental health professionals on which the public relies and reject ill-conceived decisions that: