My latest at Landmansplained: A retired microbiologist is out-investigating the federal government on a record-breaking Cyclospora outbreak. landmansplained.com/p/you-don-t-...
Keren Landman
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public health/medicine reporter | epidemiologist, ID doc | health misinfo, @soljourno, Southern stuff | Signal: kerenlandman.70 | kerenlandman.com My recent work at Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/keren-landman
Nope. CDC/FDA staffing cuts have slowed 💩 outbreak response, but didn't cause the outbreak itself. If any political dysfunction is to blame for the outbreak itself, it's pre-DOGE...and that matters. Full breakdown in my latest newsletter at @landmansplained landmansplained.com/p/how-much-o...
How much of the Cyclospora shitstorm can we really blame on DOGE? ew post
It's so hard to resist a good villain narrative
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Pivot Podcast@pivotpod.bsky.social · 3w ago“You need to appreciate government before you start shitting yourself.” As explosive diarrhea sweeps the nation, @profgalloway.com and @karaswisher.bsky.social talk about how functioning public health agencies often go unnoticed—until they don’t.
Is anyone else having trouble with their email ending up in recipients' junk mail? All week, nearly all the emails I've sent to new contacts (from @gmail.com addresses, one newer and one very old) have gotten trapped in spam filters. Not using autosender, haven't been hacked. Just me?
SCOOP: US is sending PHS officers to Kenya to screen Americans returning from Ebola-affected areas. Will they assess individual risk, or treat everyone as high-risk like hantavirus cruise passengers? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert-the-us-government-plans-to-screen-americans-for-ebola-overseas-1d65
NEWS ALERT: The US government plans to screen Americans for Ebola overseas
Dozens of uniformed personnel are expected to deploy to the DRC to staff a field unit this week.
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SCOOP: US is sending PHS officers to Kenya to screen Americans returning from Ebola-affected areas. Will they assess individual risk, or treat everyone as high-risk like hantavirus cruise passengers? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert-the-us-government-plans-to-screen-americans-for-ebola-overseas-1d65
NEWS ALERT: The US government plans to screen Americans for Ebola overseas
Dozens of uniformed personnel are expected to deploy to the DRC to staff a field unit this week.
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TIRED: panicking about Hot Plague Ship Summer WIRED: panicking about not having a public health infrastructure INSPIRED: panicking about not having enough Sam Greenfield in my earballs I get into it in the latest issue of Landmansplained: landmansplained.com/p/hot-plague...
Hot Plague Ship Summer
And more on what we’re talking about when we talk about CDC
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just gave my entire night to canva and let me tell you what I didn't get is an animated logo
Went to a public health watch party for a big CDC conference Ate Costco snax Felt existential dread More here: landmansplained.com/p/i-went-to-...
I went to a CDC conference watch party and found a fight about the future
IT
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The CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service turns 75 this year. Today, its annual conference kicks off. It's a showcase, a professional speed-dating event, and a reunion for something being actively dismantled. I wrote about it in the first issue of my newsletter: landmansplained.com/p/gathering-...
Gathering anyway
Public health Burning Man is this week, and it is not business as usual.
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@sjsteimer.bsky.social 's take on the millennial feminist autobios is the only one I wanted to read, and I was RIGHT haters-guide-to-living-well.beehiiv.com/p/my-insuffe...
My insufferable generation
We will probably post through our midlife crises!
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I'm launching a newsletter! Landmansplained will be about public health + other things. If you're familiar with my work at Vox, it'll sound familiar, but a little looser and more personal. 1st issue will be about a bizarro CDC conference taking place this week. Join me at landmansplained.com
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I use #Descript because I enjoy fixing audio transcripts and then having the AI fuck it up all over again and then fixing the audio transcript the AI fucked up and then having the AI fuck it up all over again and then fixing it one more time because 🤷♀️ and then having the AI fuck it up AGAIN and then
not sure what the people of Decatur GA did to deserve the absolute thicket of bullshit that is driving in its downtown these days but it must’ve been real bad
Why does the AJC keep reposting winter weather alerts from late January? Wrong answers only.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution@ajc.com · 5mo agoSeveral winter weather alerts have been issued across the state for this weekend, just days after thawing out from last weekend’s ice storm.
making friends in the bathroom line downtown the night Bridget Everett’s in town >>>
did the AJC also fire its entire social team? its gonna be 80 degrees here tomorrow (which, notably, is Monday)
UPDATE/SCOOP: An FBI affidavit used to seize 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County omitted key findings from state investigators that undercut many questions about wrongdoing, an @npr.org analysis finds. Read the Secretary of State's office investigative reports:
The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims
An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.
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“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”
sorry about your cookies
this is probably TMI
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sorry to be smug but I told y'all not to trust the CDC website two months ago www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
What It’s Like to Work Inside a Broken CDC
Agency workers say that information on subjects other than vaccines is largely reliable—for now.
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wait so all this time all I had to be was hot and chaotic and not even a good writer? jfc
This interview by @aliroginpbs.bsky.social with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is a masterclass. It should be taught in j-schools and she should receive a medal for it. Here are just a few of the things she does while making it all look easy: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
FDA head explains decision to drop 'black box' warnings from menopause hormone treatment
The FDA announced it would begin asking drug companies to remove so-called “black box” warnings for hormones prescribed to treat symptoms of menopause. The FDA says the warning has dissuaded generatio...
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