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Biden Orders Door-to-Door Health Surveys After Rail Disaster

  • President Joe Biden instructed federal agents responding to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, to go door-to-door to conduct health surveys with impacted families, a White House official said Monday.
  • Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention visited approximately 350 household over the weekend, according to the official, who described the effort on the condition of anonymity.
  • The government has been distributing fliers detailing available federal resource and hopes to reach an additional 50 families on Monday.
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