Pediatrician at NIFA housing summit: 'Health, wealth and housing — you can't separate them.' • Nebraska Examiner

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Pediatrician at NIFA housing summit: 'Health, wealth and housing — you can't separate them.' • Nebraska Examiner

(Getty Images)LINCOLN — Mouse droppings led to a “eureka moment” for Dr. Megan Sandel, who at the time was a pediatric resident in Boston. Sandel, speaking Wednesday in Nebraska, back then had been caring for a child who was admitted to the intensive care unit with a worsening case of asthma. She and the family were “tearing our hair out” trying to figure out the trigger, and then someone mentioned a newcomer to the child’s home, a cat. Dr. Mega…