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]

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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