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Yasmeen Abutaleb is a New York Times best selling author[1][2] and journalist who was the national health policy reporter and as of August 4, 2022 is a White House reporter for The Washington Post.[3]
Yasmeen Abutaleb | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Occupation | Health Policy Reporter |
| Years active | 2014-present |
| Employer | The Washington Post |
Abutaleb graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland[4] in 2010, where she first learned about journalism on their newspaper, the Black and White.
Abutaleb received a B.S. in microbiology and a B.A. in journalism from University of Maryland in 2014. She served as the editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper, The Diamondback from 2012-2013.[5]
Abutaleb started her career covering health care for Reuters, focusing on the Affordable Care Act, drug pricing and federal health programs.[6]
In 2016, she was one of three lead reporters on a five-part investigative series detailing the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant infections.[7][8]
She joined The Washington Post in 2019 as a national reporter covering health policy. She focuses on the Department of Health and Human Services and health care in politics.[9]
Throughout her career, Abutaleb has reported on the opioid crisis,[10] changes to Medicaid[11] and how politics influence health policies.[12]
She has appeared on Washington Week,[13] C-SPAN[14] and MSNBC.[15][16][17]
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In June 2021,[18] Abutaleb and Damian Paletta co-authored “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” a book detailing the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in America.[19][20]
The book most notably reveals that President Trump considered displacing infected passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship at Guantánamo Bay,[21] and that the severity of President Trump's coronavirus infection was far worse than he originally let on.[22][23][24][25]
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