Yasmeen Abutaleb

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Yasmeen Abutaleb
Alma mater University of Maryland, College Park
OccupationHealth Policy Reporter
Years active2014-present
Employer The Washington Post

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]

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Education

Abutaleb graduated from Walt Whitman High School 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. [4]

Career

Abutaleb started her career covering health care for Reuters, focusing on the Affordable Care Act, drug pricing and federal health programs. [5]

In 2016, she was one of three lead reporters on a five-part investigative series detailing the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant infections. [6] [7]

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. [8]

Throughout her career, Abutaleb has reported on the opioid crisis, [9] changes to Medicaid [10] and how politics influence health policies. [11]

She has appeared on Washington Week, [12] C-SPAN [13] and MSNBC. [14] [15] [16]

Works

In June 2021, [17] 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. [18] [19]

The book most notably reveals that President Trump considered displacing infected passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship at Guantánamo Bay, [20] and that the severity of President Trump's coronavirus infection was far worse than he originally let on. [21] [22] [23] [24]

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  9. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen. "As Trumpcare health bill languishes in politics, former opioid abusers cling to lifeline". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  10. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen. "Trump administration to reject generous Medicaid expansion funding for Utah". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
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  12. ↑ "President Biden Visits Surfside After Deadly Collapse". PBS. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  13. ↑ "Yasmeen Abutaleb on the Affordable Care Act". C-SPAN. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
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  15. ↑ "Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show, 6/29/21". MSNBC. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
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  22. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen; Paletta, Damian (2021-06-29). Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History. HarperCollins. ISBN   978-0-06-306607-6. OCLC   1225066847.
  23. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen; Paletta, Damian; Stead Sellers, Frances (29 June 2021). "Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta discuss their new book "Nightmare Scenario"". Washington Post Live . Retrieved 30 June 2021– via YouTube.
  24. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen; Paletta, Damian; Stead Sellers, Frances. "Transcript: Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta, "Nightmare Scenario"". Washington Post Live . Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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