Yasmeen Abutaleb

Yasmeen Abutaleb is a New York Times best selling author^[1] and journalist who is currently a national health policy reporter for The Washington Post.^[2]

Education[]

Abutaleb graduated from Walt Whitman High School (Maryland) in Bethesda, Maryland 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.^[3]

Career[]

Abutaleb started her career covering health care for Reuters, focusing on the Affordable Care Act, drug pricing and federal health programs^[4]

In 2016, she was one of three lead reporters on a five-part investigative series detailing the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant infections.^[5][6]

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.^[7]

Throughout her career, Abutaleb has reported on the opioid crisis,^[8] changes to Medicaid^[9] and how politics influence health policies.^[10]

She has appeared on Washington Week,^[11] C-SPAN^[12] and MSNBC.^[13][14]

Works[]

In June 2021,^[15] 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 lackluster response to the COVID-19 pandemic in America.^[16][17]

The book most notably reveals that President Trump considered displacing infected passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship at Guantánamo Bay,^[18] and that the severity of President Trump's coronavirus infection was far worse than he originally let on.^{[19][20][21][22]}

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