Chapter 8: No Response
Chapter 9: Sit Down
Chapter 10: Jenny + The Data 

Chapter 8: Main Idea- It is integral to understand the power and potential of big data to improve patient outcomes at the population health level. 

Chapter 9- “I came to Flint for its hope, but also for its lessons, both terrible and beautiful. Flint from its beginnings has been a place of extremes, where greed meets solidarity, where bigotry meets fairness,  and where the struggle for equality has been played out. Flint is where many people have been pushed down and many have risen. And where many have fought the good fight- and won” (Hanna-Attisha, 118). 

Points of Information:
-  General Motors was central to the Flint economy and made Flint very rich for years. It attracted people from many different backgrounds- immigrants from Europe and the Middle East, Poland to the Levant, followed the American Dream to MI’s industrial centers. Over 6 million African Americans hoping to escape Jim Crow laws in the South came to Flint for a better life. 

- Red-lining neighborhoods, restrictive racial covenants, and other methods of perpetuating racial inequity was encouraged by GM. 

- Flint represents social change in industrial America- because so many sit-down strikes and protests were and are organized, which caused union and management hashed collective bargaining agreements that ensured workers better wages, safer workplaces, and dignity.  

Chapter 10- “The residents began pulling up research on their laptops. As I spoke, their focus on me was intense, and I could see their minds were fully engaged... it was real, something that was happening all around us, the blood of our own patients, and water that flowed in the pipes of our own city, where we sat”
—> mass mobilization to expose the crisis was begun and the nuanced process of data analysis was underway