3 Years After East Palestine Train Derailment, NIH Gives $10 Million to Study Health Effects
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
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Summary
It’s been three full years since the Ohio state government decided to detonate derailed train cars containing vinyl chloride in the village of East Palestine.
You might remember the apocalyptic imagery that came out of that explosion—it looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off.
Three years later, anecdotal evidence is showing that the residents are experiencing thyroid disease, cancers, respiratory problems, neurological issues, asthma, and other problems.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now announced a $10 million research project to study the long-term health effects on the people living there.
Let’s review what took place there in 2023, what the effects appear to be now, as well as what the NIH is doing about it.
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| 0:00.0 | It has now officially been three full years since the Ohio state government decided to detonate |
| 0:05.3 | those train cars containing vinyl chloride in the village of East Palestine. |
| 0:09.9 | You probably remember the apocalyptic imagery that came out after that explosion. |
| 0:15.0 | It looked pretty much like a nuclear bomb had gone off in the middle of that town. |
| 0:20.6 | And three years later, unfortunately, |
| 0:22.9 | anecdotal evidence is piling up showing that the residents there are experiencing things like |
| 0:27.6 | thyroid disease, cancers, respiratory problems, neurological issues, asthma, and things like that. |
| 0:35.4 | It's to the point now that the NIH has just announced a $10 million |
| 0:39.8 | research project in East Palestine to study the long-term health effects of the people living there. |
| 0:46.4 | And so today, let's review what actually took place three years ago, what the effects appear to be |
| 0:52.2 | now, as well as what the NIH under the leadership of |
| 0:55.6 | RFK Jr. are doing about it. And as always, if you appreciate content like this, please do smash |
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| 1:03.3 | and share it out to ever more people. Thank you so much for that. Now, a little bit background |
| 1:07.0 | here, in case you just don't remember, In 2023, a freight train with more than 100 cars |
| 1:12.1 | derailed in a small town called East Palestine, Ohio. It's located in the eastern part of the state |
| 1:17.9 | right there near the border with Pennsylvania. Now, fortunately, nobody was killed in that accident. |
| 1:24.6 | But unfortunately, that accident launched 38 cars off the tracks, and among those |
| 1:30.5 | derailed cars, 20 of them contain hazardous chemical materials. Specifically, those train cars |
| 1:36.9 | contained pressurized vinyl chloride, hydrogen chloride, as well as ethyl hexylacrylate, |
| 1:42.3 | all three of which are toxic to human health, as well as |
| 1:45.7 | carcinogenic, meaning those chemicals can cause cancer in the human body. And for your reference, |
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