Yasmeen Abutaleb is a New York Times best selling author and journalist who was the national health policy reporter and as of August 4, 2022 is a White House reporter for

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Education

Abutaleb graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda,

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

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 The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

in 2014. She served as the editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper,

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from 2012-2013.

Career

Abutaleb started her career covering health care for

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, focusing on the

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, drug pricing and federal health programs. In 2016, she was one of three lead reporters on a five-part investigative series detailing the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant infections. She joined

in 2019 as a national reporter covering health policy. She focuses on the

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and health care in politics. Throughout her career, Abutaleb has reported on the opioid crisis, changes to Medicaid and how politics influence health policies. She has appeared on

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and

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Works

In June 2021, 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. The book most notably reveals that President Trump considered displacing infected passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship at

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, and that the severity of President Trump's coronavirus infection was far worse than he originally let on.

References

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